| 25-6796 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion |
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| 25-6730 |
Daniel Carlos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling recidivism supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-6702 |
Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25-6714 |
Ivan Granillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-crime immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation transportation |
What mens rea is required for the element that the defendant transport or move the noncitizen "in furtherance " of a violation of law ? |
| 25-6704 |
Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25-6682 |
Fidel Aramboles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment |
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for … |
| 25-6663 |
Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy |
Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi… |
| 25-6622 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6594 |
William James Forbis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6597 |
Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6566 |
William Dahl v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2252A criminalizes the receipt of child pornography. A depiction counts as child pornography if its "production . . . involves the use of … |
| 25-817 |
Charles W. Christopher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards |
What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity? |
| 25-6514 |
Epifanio Leos-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-law notice-clause prior-conviction recidivism sixth-amendment |
Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 25-6492 |
Arthur Fayne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud |
1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis).
Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 1343 conf… |
| 25-6468 |
Derrick Hahn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6473 |
Clover McGregor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-restriction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment. |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6462 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-6433 |
Avis Coward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-747 |
Matthew Cline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25-6407 |
Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25A702 |
Mark Alan Deakins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6329 |
Tommie Slack v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent |
Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu… |
| 25-6309 |
Melquan Thawney v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s categorial ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional. |
| 25-6266 |
George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to … |
| 25A607 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights |
| 25-6187 |
Maurice Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6137 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),… |
| 25-6122 |
Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-scrutiny criminal-law due-process felons-rights firearm-possession second-amendment |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6126 |
Nathaniel Durham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error |
This case presents two important repeatedly occurring criminal-law questions that affect many defendants and have divided judges within the same circu… |
| 25-6062 |
Carl Morgan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals based on their past conviction for a non-violent offense.
… |
| 25-6041 |
Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25-6028 |
Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-5999 |
Eric Dennard Parker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?
2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-5985 |
Anne M. Lynch v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness |
Whether petitioner's payment violated the honest-services fraud statute?
Whether the district court's erroneous fiduciary duty jury instruction requi… |
| 25-5944 |
Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 25-5946 |
Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5938 |
Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-5924 |
Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5802 |
Tommy Phonthalangsy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5790 |
Kyle Davey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user"
of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25-383 |
Mark Van Epern v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a defendant "uses" a minor to engage in "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by surreptitiously recording the minor nude … |
| 25-5762 |
Muhammad Masood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5724 |
Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5710 |
Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense |
Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of the necessity defense if he cou… |
| 25-333 |
Tangtang Zhao v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution |
What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 25-5678 |
Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1). |
| 25-5656 |
Kara Sternquist, aka Cara Sandiego, aka Kara Withersea v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Kara Sternquist's prior convictions are old and nonviolent. She has no history of being dangerous, but was herself a victim of violent c… |
| 25-5600 |
In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard |
|
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… |
| 25-5590 |
Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel… |
| 25-5514 |
Joseph Lee Betancourt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 25-5493 |
Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release |
When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-5482 |
Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5454 |
Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO… |
| 25-5423 |
Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5415 |
Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25A201 |
Michael Donell Glover v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Whether a pocketknife can categorically qualify as a 'deadly weapon' under Texas law when its potential for causing serious bodily injury depends on t… |
| 25-5388 |
Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5377 |
Vincent Deritis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction |
Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when he records images showing the minor engaged in on… |
| 25-5381 |
Shameika Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit… |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5334 |
Billy Joe Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25-161 |
Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th… |
| 25-150 |
Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 25-5299 |
Alfred Lamar Shavers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-prohibition firearm-possession second-amendment |
WHETHER THE CRIME OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT WHERE THERE IS A BLANKET PRO… |
| 25-146 |
Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation |
When applying the plain language of a broadly worded federal criminal statue would intrude on an area historically left to the states, must a court ap… |
| 25-5276 |
David Leroy Earls v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to
18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous
language … |
| 25-5250 |
Edgardo Antonio Romero-Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-5226 |
Nashaun Drake v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5178 |
Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5170 |
Mark Richard Walters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud? |
| 25-61 |
Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5072 |
Khaled Miah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat |
Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi… |
| 25-5067 |
Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 25-5009 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-5027 |
Gregory Stevens v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-8 |
Matthew Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness |
I.
Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible
right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague.
II.
Whether th… |
| 24-7528 |
John A. Sam v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment |
Whether the application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) to a convicted felon plainly violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7501 |
Jacob Allen Judd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for 'crime[s] punishable by imprisonme… |
| 24A1266 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires courts to resolve inherent textual ambiguity when multiple circuits have reached conflicting interpretations of a … |
| 24-7471 |
Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Seventh Circuit err by concluding Mr. Ferguson's § 844(i) arson conviction was not overbroad? |
| 24-7435 |
Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 24-7398 |
Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7402 |
Braddic Deshaun Rollerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-7379 |
Andra G. Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) can be used to punish a person for a Hobbs Act robbery when the robbery is not located in § 924(c) |
| 24-7340 |
Jerrell Anthony Bazile v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-7318 |
Wesley Eron Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-7323 |
Jody D. Owens v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses involving su… |
| 24-1203 |
Bernhard Jakits v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's jury instructions on 'sexually explicit conduct' and 'lascivious exhibition' were consistent with statutory interpretatio… |
| 24-7290 |
Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure |
Whether Apprendi errors under the Armed Career Criminal Act should be treated as trial or sentencing errors, and whether a firearms possession statute… |
| 24-7271 |
Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7261 |
Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7188 |
Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute criminalizing firearm possession by marijuana users violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7168 |
Raymond Charles, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession for individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7161 |
Todd Sheffler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation |
For what purposes may courts use facts or events that occurred after the offense to determine the 'reasonable likelihood' of a federal investigation a… |
| 24-7115 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in 'sexually explicit conduct' when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24-7071 |
Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7072 |
Du Truong Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the ACCA unconstitutional because neither the judge nor the jury may make the occasions clause finding essential to every ACCA sentence? |
| 24-7013 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt |
Whether the Texas burglary statute qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act after United States v. Stitt, given its potent… |
| 24-6994 |
Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the interpretation of the money laundering statute's knowledge requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i) |
| 24-6981 |
Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-1066 |
Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation |
Whether a private individual may be convicted of honest-services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346 where the alleged scheme to defraud did not contemplate … |
| 24-6924 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and post-conviction supervised release restrictions prohibiting firearm possession comport with the Second Amendment |
| 24-6898 |
Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' as that term… |
| 24-6826 |
Timothy W. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'uses' in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires an active interaction with a minor when interpreting the statute's actus reus verbs |
| 24-6818 |
Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, or whether such challenges … |
| 24-6789 |
Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen |
| 24-6782 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances |
| 24-6755 |
Xavier Armon Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-6757 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish… |
| 24-6759 |
Paul Corey Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-972 |
Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of federal mail an… |
| 24-6713 |
Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defend… |
| 24-6693 |
Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece… |
| 24-6695 |
Edward Deloach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court errs in applying a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2A6.1(b)(2) when the defendant's submitted document was not a lien … |
| 24-6686 |
Deonta Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect |
In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 24-6638 |
Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing |
Does the 'depraved heart' theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's 'depraved' conduct and the victim… |
| 24-6627 |
Anthony Washington v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment |
| 24-6606 |
Willie McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U… |
| 24-6583 |
Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6560 |
Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-6506 |
Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U… |
| 24-843 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'uses' in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted contextually with other actus reus verbs, and whether 'for the purpose of' requir… |
| 24-6482 |
In Re Petera Micale Carlton |
|
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner remains a career offender under the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Simmons |
| 24-6487 |
Kareem Reaves v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment |
| 24-6459 |
Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review |
Should the voluntariness of a defendant's consent always be reviewed de novo? |
| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-6398 |
Filemon Corona-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 24-6326 |
Mark Allen Hayden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Floyd v. State demonstrates that Petitioner's prior statute of conviction cannot be divided for the purposes of the categorical approach, and … |
| 24-6312 |
Tisheem Rich v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 24-6301 |
Deion Shawn Hester v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment |
Whether a person previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment |
| 24-6224 |
Armando Mena-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 24-6211 |
Roderick Wayne Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment |
| 24-6190 |
Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a 'substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6136 |
Zachary Barker Coughlin v. California |
California |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process lawrence-v-texas sexual-consent |
Whether California can criminalize advance consent to sexual intercourse with an intoxicated or unconscious person in light of Lawrence v. Texas |
| 24-6123 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault |
Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t… |
| 24-6103 |
Christopher Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law felony-prohibition firearms-possession second-amendment |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession by felons violate the Second Amendment and can Congress criminalize intrastate firearm… |
| 24-6077 |
Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court should consult Chapter 109A offenses when determining a Chapter 110 sentencing enhancement for prior sexual abuse convictio… |
| 24A540 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when t… |
| 24-571 |
Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture honeycutt-precedent property-transfer statutory-interpretation |
Under Honeycutt, can a defendant be ordered to forfeit property that was intended for and ultimately acquired by her co-conspirator, merely because th… |
| 24-550 |
Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation |
Whether the term 'offense' in the double jeopardy provision of extradition treaties refers to underlying conduct or elements of crimes |
| 24-522 |
Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 24-5880 |
Eric Schmidt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of mens rea applies to elements that increase statutory minimum and maximum penalties or only to elements that criminalize oth… |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard and is attempting to aid and abet a valid offense unde… |
| 24-5795 |
Carl Langston v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Petitioner's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment where th… |
| 24A353 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession |
Whether the 'in relation to' element of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires more than a mere potential to facilitate a crime of violence when a firearm is car… |
| 24-5581 |
In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. |
|
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law fbi-jurisdiction federal-statute legal-definition statutory-interpretation vawa-interpretation |
Whether the term 'members' in an indictment sufficiently alleges a specific 'person' under 18 USC 2261A(2)(A) and whether the FBI can be considered a … |
| 24-5507 |
Taylor Hildreth v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-260 |
Anthony Pandrella v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce loansharking robbery |
Whether a robbery of a former loanshark victim can establish federal jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act when the victim had previously withdrawn from th… |
| 24-5465 |
William Orren Dawes v. California |
California |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-process legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5446 |
Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) can be based on a definitional term 'lascivious' without depicting actual sexual conduct |
| 24-5391 |
Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment's right to bear ar… |
| 24-5393 |
Taddius Tyrone Woods v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 24-5375 |
Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation |
Does retroactive application of sentencing guidelines violate due process as construed by the Supreme Court? |
| 24A181 |
Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519 improperly expands the statute's scope beyond its intended purpose of preventing document destruction i… |
| 24-5315 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-5316 |
Kifano Jordan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether New York's second-degree murder statute qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 24-5286 |
Kenneth Rose v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-amendment criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review precedent-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court improperly disregarded Simpson v. U.S. precedent by assuming Congressional amendment of 18 U.S.C.A. § 924(c) in 1984 overrode … |
| 24-142 |
Brian Benjamin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo |
Does 'explicit' in the context of campaign contribution bribery mean a quid pro quo agreement that can be inferred or implied, or does it require a he… |
| 24-137 |
Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5258 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a district court judgment in a case involving federal sentencing guidelines and judici… |
| 24-125 |
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affirmat… |
| 24-5224 |
Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Sentencing-reasonableness |
| 24-5229 |
Justin Levar Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-126 |
Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness when applied to unscheduled substances with no objective scien… |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional? |
| 24-119 |
Alan Safahi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a party who subsequently breaches a contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud in the absence of fraudulent inducement |
| 24A123 |
James H. Roane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense |
Whether a federal court can 'look through' a VICAR offense to assess the underlying statute's mens rea requirement consistent with the Supreme Court's… |
| 24-5176 |
Antonio Santonastaso v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
Does the new materiality standard from Maslenjak v. United States apply to prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)? |
| 24-87 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283 extended the statute of limitations for sex offenses against children to charges for conduct from the 1… |
| 24-5156 |
Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 24A85 |
David Vargas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit |
Whether the phrase 'physical restraint' in the United States Sentencing Guidelines requires actual physical confinement or can include psychological c… |
| 24-5105 |
Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 24-5109 |
Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) 'image specific'? |
| 24-5098 |
Gerald Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), and how the rule of lenity should properly be a… |
| 24-5082 |
Adam Sprenger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Have the federal courts misinterpreted and misapplied 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) et. seq. to encompass conduct neither proscribed nor enumerated in 18 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5087 |
Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defendant'… |
| 24A48 |
Kristin K. Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona v. Dennis McGrane, County Attorney of Yavapai County, Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-07-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abortion-statute criminal-law individual-autonomy medical-procedure reproductive-rights state-constitution |
Whether Arizona's recently enacted abortion statute, which criminalizes certain medical procedures, violates the state constitution's protection of in… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's sentence constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 24-5050 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of violence? |
| 24-5027 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states causation-of-harm criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidentiary-hearing federal-statute heroin-distribution jury-instruction jury-instructions overdose sentencing-enhancement |
Did the trial court err when it refused to instruct the jury that the heroin distributed by the defendant was the same heroin that caused the victims'… |
| 24-5013 |
Jonathan Feliz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-5007 |
David Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5008 |
Glynzo Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass |
Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic 'burglary' under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7836 |
Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7839 |
Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime |
Whether a federal court must defer to a state's highest appellate court's 'least culpable' interpretation of a state crime and follow this Court's dir… |
| 23-7788 |
Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7776 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23-7767 |
In Re Jogaak Jogaak |
|
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified |
| 23-7747 |
Keith Hager v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute? |
| 23-7728 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness |
2nd-amendment |
| 23-1310 |
Dean Gross v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in 'custody' and can commit the crime of escape |
| 23-7691 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states |
Can an Illinois' attempt offense be a predicate crime of violence for an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense? |
| 23-7696 |
Rit Tran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(0) |
| 23-7688 |
Chaves Hodges v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-1290 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Ciminelli v. United States |
| 23-1293 |
United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct |
To act 'willfully' within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-7660 |
Michael Steven Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7662 |
Felix Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-power felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-7668 |
Roylee Richardson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
arthur-andersen-llp-v-united-states criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute foreseeability official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subjective-intent witness-tampering |
Whether the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, requires proof that the defendant subjectively contemplated a federal official procee… |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7653 |
Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7654 |
Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine |
| 23-7632 |
Cordero Passley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing |
Whether the defendant committed a 'willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing' under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7584 |
Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder |
Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense? |
| 23-7554 |
Rawtavious Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7520 |
Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison |
Whether Michigan's involuntary mental health treatment hearings comply with the mandatory language of the statute and prison policy directive, and whe… |
| 23A1037 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad as applied to felons who do not pose a demonstrable risk to public safety |
| 23-7494 |
Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
Is it repugnant to convict a US citizen for innocent acts not criminalized by statute? |
| 23-7501 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23-7473 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard |
Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of 'subjective intent to threaten,' as articu… |
| 23-7461 |
Shane A. Fox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty |
Whether the inchoate offense of engaging in an illegal drug conspiracy constitutes a serious drug offense for purposes of increasing a defendant's sta… |
| 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? |
| 23-7432 |
Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction |
What are the acceptance and recordation dates for which the Federal Government accepted concurrent legislative jurisdiction from the State of Georgia … |
| 23-7439 |
Basil Loud Hawk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7411 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the U.S. Criminal Code which incorporates 'Attempt' crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7402 |
Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 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 |
| 23-7386 |
Jose Caban v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) is limited to substances defined and regulated… |
| 23A985 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague on its face and violates due process by creating uncertainty about prohibited conduct |
| 23-7357 |
Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety-valve-relief |
| 23-7327 |
Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tri… |
| 23-7317 |
Michael A. Maggio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling |
Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right… |
| 23-7304 |
Michael Anthony Granado v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses |
Whether district courts are misapplying the 'relevant-conduct' section of the United States Sentencing Guidelines |
| 23-7305 |
Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7293 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23-7288 |
Jorge Bartolomei v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute prohibiting the possession of a firearm by any person who was previously convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a te… |
| 23-7240 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanction… |
| 23-7241 |
Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(1)-(3) statute violate the United States Constitution 14th Amendment Equal Protection of the Law by not i… |
| 23-7222 |
Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must offer direct evidence of a defendant's vicious or evil intent to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 23-7229 |
Fredarius D. Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7235 |
Troy Dontae Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7217 |
Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the 'private financial gain' involved is a d… |
| 23-7166 |
Charles Edward Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness |
Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7173 |
John Lee Barlow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted … |
| 23-7179 |
Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7181 |
Austin Drake Day v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-1095 |
Patrick D. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014 prohibits making a misleading statement that is not false |
| 23-7156 |
Robert Shields v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard |
Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug a De… |
| 23-7158 |
Russell Dean Alford v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 'disorderly' and 'disruptive' in 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) and 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D) narrow the types of conduct criminalized, or refer only … |
| 23-7147 |
Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7125 |
Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-7100 |
Robert Merritt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing |
Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted |
| 23-7109 |
Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7096 |
Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow Ruan v. United States by holding that a registered medical practitioner or pharmacist can be convicted for … |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in light o… |
| 23-7056 |
Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration |
Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S. C… |
| 23-7060 |
Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did Congress establish state laws or certain general laws for Indian Territory Oklahoma? |
| 23-7061 |
Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation |
Proximate causation, due process, conflicting interpretation, statutory interpretation, substantive due process |
| 23-7046 |
Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's… |
| 23-6969 |
James Paul Antonio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23A835 |
Alif Jan Adil v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether knowledge of a minor's age is an essential element of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) for persuading or enticing a minor to engag… |
| 23-1002 |
Tony R. Hewitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6934 |
Calvin C. Freeman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of children 'OR' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative Means? |
| 23-6949 |
Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach |
| 23-6951 |
Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6903 |
Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat… |
| 23-6895 |
Bradley Lane Croft v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law fraud identity-theft qualifications statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dubin |
Whether aggravated identity theft convictions must be reversed when the real 'crux' of the fraud turns, not on any person's name, but on their qualifi… |
| 23-959 |
Colin Montague v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848 is invalid if it fails to set forth facts and circumstances that establish the elements … |
| 23-6873 |
Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty |
Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 2,1890, to establish State laws, or did Congress pass Certain general laws of Arkansas on May 2 … |
| 23-6881 |
Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6850 |
Eric Michael Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the application of a 'grade A' violation for a local crime, which resulted in the peti… |
| 23-918 |
Ranito Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 23-6803 |
Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 23-6786 |
Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple… |
| 23-6793 |
Timothy Burks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6797 |
Mark Steven Domingo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process entrapment inducement predisposition similar-crimes |
When a defendant raises an entrapment defense, must the government disprove entrapment |
| 23-6770 |
Juan Carlos Burns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a 'crime of violence' within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 23-6750 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) complies with the Second Amendment? |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)Gi) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concurr… |
| 23-859 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Does speech alone constitute the 'substantial step' for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor? |
| 23-6702 |
Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses |
Whether RICO incorporates state-law elements or only generic offense categories |
| 23-6687 |
Darius James Francis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6692 |
Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may be s… |
| 23-6665 |
Ole Hougen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass… |
| 23-6652 |
Don Meeker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us |
Insufficient-evidence-for-carjacking-conviction |
| 23-6656 |
Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-6662 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession is unconstitutionally vague |
| 23-6643 |
Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel |
When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-6647 |
Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6635 |
Leslie Fulwiler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-825 |
Salvatore Delligatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender |
| 23-6624 |
In Re Johnny Jones |
|
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the creation of Statute 794.011(2) leave the courts without subject-matter-jurisdiction? |
| 23-6588 |
Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony |
Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction… |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A permits a court to order the least culpable member of a conspiracy to pay the same amount of restitution as the most culpabl… |
| 23-6552 |
In Re Vincent Pisciotta |
|
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation |
Can a conviction for 'using fire to commit a federal felony' be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a 'conspiracy to commit arson |
| 23-6555 |
Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23-6541 |
In Re Ronald Freeman |
|
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense |
Whether being in federal detention, custody is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman's constitutional right of liberty, without sufficient cause, wit… |
| 23-6514 |
Tiffany Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a 'controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 |
Shannon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6495 |
Peter Burno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing |
Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6477 |
Jamaile L. Huey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime |
Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6481 |
Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation |
Did the courts below impermissibly expand the scope of the federal child pornography statutes in contravention of this Court's precedents and the plai… |
| 23-6432 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether or not Pelytwuner is innocent of being Hebi toa! Cxiwminal olfeudtr and of the sentence of FO years () ve , im posed under the vetrcact ve app… |
| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple… |
| 23-6400 |
Michael Hewitt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy drug-distribution evidence jury-instructions |
Should the trial court have acquitted Petitioner of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine |
| 23-6396 |
Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 23-6397 |
Jaime Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime of physical inaction ever 'has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 23-6399 |
Michael Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6382 |
Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6394 |
Andrew Tablack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation |
Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) that requires the CDS named in the indictment to be listed on the Controlled Substance Schedules at th… |
| 23-693 |
Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations |
Whether district courts may give Skidmore deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations when offered by one of its represen… |
| 23-685 |
Devaughn Dorsey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering |
Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tampering,… |
| 23-6331 |
Hannibal Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause |
Whether the courts should take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and only disqualify the defendant … |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) |
| 23-6285 |
Kenneth Paiva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-6297 |
Kevin Hewlett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea |
Whether the use of a cellphone in criminal conduct is a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce |
| 23-6278 |
Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single special assessment o… |
| 23-6218 |
Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-6221 |
Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment |
| 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 |
| 23-6161 |
Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release |
Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina applies to individuals on supervised release |
| 23-6135 |
Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6121 |
Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether career offender status should be subject to appeal waivers in plea agreements where a defendant has a legitimate argument that he was not a ca… |
| 23-556 |
Ramey & Schwaller, L.L.P. v. Zions Bancorporation NA, dba Amegy Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest criminal-law due-process formal-charge indictment united-states-v-marion |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misconstrues Texas criminal law by equating an arrest without indictment as a formal charge for a felony |
| 23-6074 |
Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession |
Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo… |
| 23-6092 |
Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder |
Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of 'maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6100 |
Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation |
Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines |
| 23-6103 |
Alvin Celius Andre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Does a constructive amendment occur when the government substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), 'any individu… |
| 23-6069 |
Jeremie Saintvil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Whether the two bank fraud subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are separate and distinct offenses that require charging in separate counts? |
| 23-6062 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States? |
| 23-6039 |
Selbourne Waite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6042 |
Joel Flores v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm 'in furtherance of' a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether the correct offense level should be used in sentencing violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B(a)(1), (d) |
| 23-6000 |
Tyler Catlin Borg v. California |
California |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder intent jury-instructions lying-in-wait murder-intent |
Questions Presented |
| 23-6004 |
Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder constitute the 'same offense' under the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 23-5960 |
Brandon Keith Wright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-5962 |
Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation |
Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 23-5939 |
Brett Northington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
Should the definition of 'aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?' be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5942 |
Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional |
| 23-5934 |
Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5917 |
Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5919 |
Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to use the standard of review for pill mill cases as established by this Court |
| 23-5907 |
Brian Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft |
Does a conviction for carjacking by 'force and violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite in… |
| 23-5908 |
Michael James Choulat v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5876 |
Christian Lamar Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5882 |
Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County |
Illinois |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court |
Whether the state trial court's October 29, 1990 order was issued without authority and is void for want of jurisdiction? |
| 23-5859 |
Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Whether the lower court or district court violated the defendant's constitutional rights under due process of the laws |
| 23A359 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard |
| 23-5796 |
Jose Folch-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime |
Whether petitioner aided and abetted a VICAR crime absent evidence of payment to the enterprise and without need to prove the motive element |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea |
| 23-5815 |
Emily Claire Hari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic |
Whether the 'jurisdictional element' contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5780 |
Denis Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense |
Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid |
| 23-5781 |
Troy George Skinner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) apply extraterritorially to permit the prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen located in a foreign country whose conduct giving ri… |
| 23-5749 |
Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Fifth Circuit's selective adjudication and undermining the law of this Court's ruling on conduct outside the statutory definition of a crime … |
| 23-5756 |
David Davalos, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property |
Whether Honeycutt-v-United-States-requires-limiting-forfeiture-to-tainted-property-defendant-actually-acquired |
| 23-5735 |
Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction |
What constitutes the violent felony of the first degree (Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury) under 18 Pa. C.S. §2702(a)(1)? |
| 23-5742 |
Joseph Michael Easton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-376 |
United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-301 |
James E. Workman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud |
Whether the criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud required proof that the defendant understood his obli… |
| 23-5649 |
Jonathan Monson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction |
Does Section 2251(a) of Title 18 require evidence that a defendant sexually exploited a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction, and tha… |
| 23-5640 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether attempted bank robbery and attempted armed bank robbery are 'crimes of violence' |
| 23-5641 |
Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication |
Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individual who is not a resident of that state and at all times relevant to the case, was never pre… |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release, may the court run the service in prison on each term consecutively to exceed the maximum authorize… |
| 23-5632 |
Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper definition of 'relating to the sexual exploitation of children' in 18 U.S.C. §2251(e)? |
| 23-5621 |
Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n) |
| 23-5591 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage |
Whether an 'attempted transfer' of drugs, § 802(8), includes any conduct that would also constitute an 'attempted distribution' of drugs, § 846 |
| 23-5602 |
Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an 'attempted transfer' of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an 'attempted distribution' of drugs… |
| 23-5581 |
Matthew R. Osuba v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 23-5587 |
Daniel Carrington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court's decision in United States v. Burrage created a bright line rule on proof of proximate cause |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional |
| 23-238 |
Roger Dale Anderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that jury instructions were sufficient despite lack of reference to the CSA's 'authorization' requirement |
| 23-219 |
Sherman Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state offense relates to the 'sexual exploitation of children' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) |
| 23-5546 |
Richard Sansbury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement |
Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the term 'abducted' conflict with the ordinary meaning of the term and with the Guidelines' definition's re… |
| 23-5506 |
Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce is sufficient to bring a purely local, non-economic crimi… |
| 23-5511 |
Jay F. Elhage v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution |
Whether Congress has authority to criminally punish under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-5512 |
Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether Ohio's Domestic Violence Statute is categorically a violent felony in light of Samuel Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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 |
| 23-5403 |
Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of viol… |
| 23-5369 |
Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation |
Whether a false statement in a firearm purchase was material |
| 23-5358 |
Devin Jerrod Long v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 23-5338 |
Keith A. Penn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States broadly encompasses preliminary steps and attempts to engage in the identified conduct? |
| 23-5314 |
Joe Crawford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction when the government fails to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner knew or… |
| 23-5309 |
Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3) is a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 23-5290 |
Littleton William Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(@) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-108 |
James E. Snyder v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation |
Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities |
| 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… |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness due to lack of definitions of the term 'sexual abuse' |
| 23-5265 |
Mark Alan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-94 |
Garret Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-08-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether they criminalize advocac… |
| 23-5221 |
Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5188 |
Mark Anthony Roy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct |
| 23-5194 |
Andra Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-5196 |
James Calvin Massey v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff |
Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act—even one that is petty, predictable, and uncharged—is always an i… |
| 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? |
| 23-64 |
Bennie Charles Phillips, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-robbery criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act mens-rea mere-preparation substantial-step uniform-test |
What particularized standard should be adopted to create a uniform test for when conduct surpasses 'mere preparation' and constitutes a 'substantial s… |
| 23-5168 |
Isaac Silversmith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that second-degree murder is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) |
| 23-5170 |
Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5139 |
Jacinto Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'attempted use of force' clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an 'intent' to use force against another? |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
what-is-the-legislative-intent-of-18-usc-3553 |
| 23-5095 |
Marland Maynor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23-5099 |
Dustin Jolly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co… |
| 23-32 |
Edward Jacob Lang v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-11 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence-tampering official-proceedings police-violence public-demonstrations riot-context statutory-interpretation van-buren-v-united-states |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2) can be used to prosecute acts of violence against po… |
| 23-5075 |
Derek J. Petty v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error |
Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error |
| 23-5076 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force |
Whether 'attempted use' in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-17 |
Wisam R. Rizk v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness |
Under §1346 Honest Services, can 'conflict of interest' and 'undisclosed self-dealing' be used as the underlying criterion of guilt even when a kickba… |
| 23-5036 |
Brandon Mason v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act incorporates the federal drug schedules |
| 22-7894 |
Frankie Shearry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 22-7869 |
Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to reverse Wysinger's conviction on count one for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) |
| 22-7851 |
George Poulo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 22-7855 |
Edgar Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 22-7836 |
Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation |
Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction? |
| 22-7814 |
Joshua E. Preece v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements |
| 22-1203 |
Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent |
Whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be commit… |
| 22-7763 |
Michael Aaron Stuker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force witness-tampering |
Whether witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(2)(A) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 22-7736 |
Brandon Ross Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing |
Whether the categorical approach for determining a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act applies the federal definition of 'contr… |
| 22-7716 |
Minnela Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-7714 |
George M. Lecco v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty |
Whether the First Step Act of 2018 changed the jurisdictional boundaries for federal criminal prosecutions, and whether federal courts are obligated t… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7684 |
Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 22-7635 |
Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7638 |
Jesus Mendez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 22-7644 |
Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach |
| 22-7582 |
Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether the defendant is entitled to a reduced sentence under the First Step Act, and the proper interpretation of the statutory maximum authorized by… |
| 22-7527 |
Adam Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery can serve as the underlying felony for a 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction |
| 22-7458 |
Roger Wayne Battle v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether murder by omission qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 22-7464 |
Montez Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation |
whether-murder-by-omission-qualifies-as-a-crime-of-violence |
| 22-7452 |
Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) define a single offense or two separate and divisible offenses? |
| 22-7422 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court or legislature did not expressly sweep within New York Penal Law § 125.27 all killings in which the murderer unlawfully entered the … |
| 22-7359 |
Devin Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 22-7316 |
Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 22-7284 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative interstate commerce elements constitute separate offenses or alternative mea… |
| 22-7237 |
Eric Grzywinski v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether a statutory rape offense requires a 16-year-old age of consent to be an 'offense relating to .. sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, or abus… |
| 22-7240 |
Cole Lusby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge |
Whether SORNA's registration requirements are unconstitutionally vague |
| 22-971 |
Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat |
Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked? |
| 22-7218 |
Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7220 |
Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7155 |
Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. OceanAvent possessed a firearm |
| 22-7157 |
Andreqio Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation |
Does the different language used by Congress as to the possession crime require a jury to find more than a prior shipping or transportation of the fir… |
| 22-7114 |
Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-7066 |
Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant can be found guilty for a parole violation and a criminal violation for illegal possession of a firearm if it is illegal to tran… |
| 22-7061 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory term 'lascivious exhibition' refers to the defendant's act of exhibiting a minor's genitals on film, or to a particular type of … |
| 22-7065 |
Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially? |
| 22-7045 |
John Leendert Oskam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent |
Does the element of 'intimidation' in the crime of federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113 require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of ph… |
| 22-7041 |
Deandre Markee King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity |
Whether actual innocence requires a court to bypass a collateral-attack waiver |
| 22-7024 |
In Re Kevin Ogden |
|
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process insufficient-evidence jury-instructions legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the defendant |
| 22-7010 |
Jeffrey Jay York v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enticement criminal-law enticement entrapment evidence government-agents interstate-facilities interstate-transmission jury-evidence minor minor-solicitation |
Whether the government presented sufficient evidence to convict York of enticement of a minor |
| 22-6998 |
David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 22-6969 |
Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments' right to due process require that the legislative si… |
| 22-849 |
Rickie Foy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement |
Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6902 |
Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6881 |
James Clark, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6869 |
Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability |
Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-6853 |
Joshua Seekins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defen… |
| 22-6854 |
Xavier Sims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States to criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm on the sole basis that the firearm once mo… |
| 22-6829 |
Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 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 … |
| 22-6793 |
Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and Coun… |
| 22-6756 |
Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s 'crime of violence' definition excludes attem… |
| 22-6730 |
Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior convictions for inchoate offenses involving 'delivery' of controlled substances, where the state statute includes 'attempted transfer' a… |
| 22-6724 |
In Re Christopher Cobb |
|
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US » 142 §.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 22-6708 |
Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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)? |
| 22-6698 |
Robert Hadley Gross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-impression frivolity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-merit non-frivolous-appeal rational-defendant roe-v-flores-ortega totality-of-circumstances |
Is the Roe v. Flores-Ortega test for a non-frivolous appeal issue a case of first impression? |
| 22-718 |
Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee |
Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold insanity acquittees w… |
| 22-6666 |
Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution |
What does an 'offense' mean for purposes of restitution awards under the VWPA? |
| 22-6653 |
Jayson Montgomery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent |
Does the government need to prove subjective intent for anti-kickback statute violations? |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6600 |
Eric Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the prosecution must show the facts required under 40 U.S.C. §3112(b) to establish territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. §7(3) |
| 22-6603 |
Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6587 |
Vernon White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of 'special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 22-6568 |
Duraid Hussein v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit denied procedural due process and equal protection by not dismissing an insufficient indictment under circuit precedent |
| 22-6569 |
Charles Heard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
Does a VICAR murder conviction based on California second-degree murder constitute a crime of violence? |
| 22-6540 |
Brandon Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6541 |
Garrett Statler v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it… |
| 22-6497 |
Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does the struck-down 18 USC 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSG§4B1.2(a)(ii) Ca… |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 22-614 |
Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal constitut… |
| 22-6444 |
Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a conviction for federal 'second degree murder' under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 22-6418 |
Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose… |
| 22-6420 |
Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6422 |
Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6423 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-582 |
United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration is facially unconstitutional on First Amendmen… |
| 22-6334 |
Joey Faught v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk sufficient to invoke the Interstate Agreement on Detainers |
| 22-558 |
Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-6318 |
Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6323 |
Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 22-6307 |
John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Conspiracy' to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guidelines Section §4B1.2 |
| 22-6314 |
Ramiro Leal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6315 |
Iklas Richard Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Third Circuit's presumption that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) defendants knew of their prohibiting status conflict with Rehaif? |
| 22-6256 |
Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime,… |
| 22-6267 |
Mack Doak v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti… |
| 22-6247 |
Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language struck down by the Court in 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies to 18 U.S.C. 2232(a)(1) |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6211 |
In Re Patricia Ann Solomon |
|
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs |
Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L… |
| 22-508 |
John O. Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial court in a conspiracy to defraud prosecution premised on 18 U.S.C. § 371 must instruct the trial jury about the functions of the agenc… |
| 22-6168 |
Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 22-497 |
Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-28 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-6151 |
Demon Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6132 |
Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6117 |
Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-6109 |
Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single additional special assessment of $5,000 or $5,000 for every qualifying conv… |
| 22-6110 |
Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration co… |
| 22-6072 |
Randy Belcher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the petitioner's attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, without the use of physical force, is suffic… |
| 22-6047 |
Juan Teran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6039 |
Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations |
Was Kimbrell entitled to an entrapment instruction? |
| 22-6043 |
Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-434 |
Slade Alan Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? |
| 22-430 |
Charles Barton v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern |
Does the criminalization of expressive electronic communications in Texas Penal Code § 42.07(a)(7) implicate the First Amendment? |
| 22-6013 |
Damian Robert Guthary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error |
| 22-6022 |
Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-5982 |
Richard Allen Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 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? |
| 22-5948 |
Brett W. Cormier v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution |
Did the State of Florida violate Art. I, Sect. 10 of the United States Constitution when it impaired the obligation of petitioner's contracts by charg… |
| 22-398 |
Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief |
Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs… |
| 22-5942 |
David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Felony Murder Statute as applied to the Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5918 |
Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Tirencie Oliver's sentence imposed is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 22-5869 |
Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5826 |
Alonzo Peters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated |
| 22-331 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion |
Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is 'an offense relating to obstruction of justice,' 8 U.S.C. 1101… |
| 22-5751 |
Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation |
Does the knowingly element apply to U.S.C. §921(a)(20)? |
| 22-5740 |
Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 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 |
| 22-5677 |
Michael Louis McCarron v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that 'purely hypothetical' emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-5665 |
Geoffrie Dill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act? |
| 22-5637 |
Dwayne Stone v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation |
Whether crimes of physical inaction have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5621 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether a true threat requires the specific intent to threaten violence |
| 22-5626 |
James Earl Jones v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-term-on-another-applies |
| 22-5634 |
Nelson Jean Dion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262 |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5610 |
Andre Thompson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When applying the categorical approach of 18 U.S.C. §924(c), the elements clause, are courts allowed or required to look to the nature of an offense a… |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5589 |
Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law |
Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct |
| 22-5591 |
Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law |
When is an individual regarded as having or perceived to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) is inconsistent with the guideline |
| 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 |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5521 |
Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law |
Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5532 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'generic robbery' is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's attorney render ineffective assistance o… |
| 22-5445 |
Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5437 |
Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5441 |
Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 22-163 |
Lenair Moses v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor constrain the deference that courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 22-5417 |
Charles E. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer |
Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § 1B1.1's enhancement clause is impermissibly overbroad or void for vagueness |
| 22-5404 |
Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5406 |
Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California |
California |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
Whether California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 violates the Second Amendment by making possessing certain drugs while armed a felony |
| 22-5378 |
Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5355 |
Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age |
Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 (b) or 1591 (a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim give… |
| 22-5336 |
Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction |
Whether the state court decision conflicts with relevant decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and affects broad public interests |
| 22-5338 |
Chikosi Legins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001 |
| 22-5318 |
Samuel Francis White Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence require a jury to find that the defendant's conduct would interfere with the due administration of justi… |
| 22-5303 |
George Daniel McGavitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is 'sadistic or masochistic' under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-110 |
Julian D. Schmidt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation |
Does the ambiguous phrase 'in the presence of a child' require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of physic… |
| 22-5278 |
Jordan Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5237 |
Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of 'controlled substance offense'… |
| 22-5239 |
Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5226 |
Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a wire transfer merely distributing funds amongst alleged accomplices is 'for the purpose of executing' a fraudulent scheme, as contemplated b… |
| 22-5231 |
Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague-and-overbroad |
| 22-86 |
Charles Chavez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person violates the federal bank-robbery statute by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take th… |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 22-84 |
Saad Sakkal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
GVR |
|
controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) |
| 22-5196 |
Malik Holloway v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 22-76 |
Keith L. Carnes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user |
Whether the government must show the defendant's regular or habitual drug use to establish that the defendant is an 'unlawful user' of a controlled su… |
| 22-49 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) applies to sentences imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) |
| 22-5119 |
Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether a criminal defendant must show a statute is vague as applied to his own conduct to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge |
| 22-5111 |
Robert Doyle Harper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 22-5075 |
Courtney Newman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether an authorized physician or health care professional can be convicted under 21-U.S.C-§856(a)(1) if the sole allegation of unlawful activity is … |
| 22-5076 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Should Petition Womack's conviction be vacated? |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a fir… |
| 22-5042 |
Phillip Shiel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in relying upon a now-excised provision to trigger a mandatory minimum penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 22-10 |
David Fox Dubin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person commits aggravated identity theft by merely mentioning or reciting someone else's name while committing a predicate offense |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8268 |
Roger Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error |
Whether a federal prosecution is structural error when a grand jury indicts a defendant for conduct that is not a federal offense? |
| 21-8272 |
Robert Edward Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8247 |
Johnathan Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person is 'abducted' within the meaning of § 2B1.3(b)(4)(A) if he is moved or ordered to move only a short distance within the same building… |
| 21-1592 |
Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a… |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a district court's finding that the defendant should be punished under Subsection (b)(2) bind future decision-makers on the question of whether h… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Texas simple robbery 'has as an element the ... threatened use of physical force against the person of another' |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8217 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language |
Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s 'any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense' element requi… |
| 21-8221 |
Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson |
Whether the North Carolina crime of breaking and entering can be a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 21-8199 |
Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur |
Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8189 |
Serge Francois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming the conviction of a pharmacist for completing accurate pharmacy network applications with n… |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
Whether the lower court's order violated the Petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights by disrespecting the authority of the United States Dist… |
| 21-8162 |
Darnell Pearson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation |
Whether a charge of drug distribution requires proof of defendant's knowledge of drug type and reasonable foreseeability of death/injury |
| 21-8148 |
Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics |
Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice can be convicted of unlawful di… |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that 'trafficking' a means of identification does not also constitute 'transferring' such identification under Se… |
| 21-8130 |
Monica Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud |
Is the interstate nexus required in § 1343 a substantive element of the crime of wire fraud? |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the 'death results' enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841? |
| 21-8103 |
Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal definition of a firearm silencer requires a showing of subjective purpose or intent to use a device as a silencer |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
Whether the differing penalties established by Utah's drug and measurable substance provisions violate due process or equal protection |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8087 |
Zachary S. Keeter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction criminal-defense criminal-law due-process expert-testimony improperly-prescribed-medication involuntary-intoxication judicial-discretion medication-addiction mental-health psychosis-claim |
Should a person whose addiction is the result of improperly prescribed medication be allowed an involuntary intoxication defense? |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term 'controlled substance' in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8051 |
Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a crime that is not a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act can serve as a predicate offense for purposes of the Act's sentencing… |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0) permit a defendant to file a motion to vacate a restitution he asserts is illegal? |
| 21-7992 |
Reginald Andre Molette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B) Gi)? |
| 21-7994 |
Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Does Borden v. United States, 141 8. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-1491 |
City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez |
Washington |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony? |
| 21-7957 |
Samuel Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt |
Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev… |
| 21-7958 |
Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing |
Whether a mens rea applies to the elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increase the statutory minimu… |
| 21-7960 |
Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7915 |
Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7880 |
Robert Andrew Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction |
Whether child pornography is a federal crime enumerated by the Constitution |
| 21-7857 |
Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling |
| 21-7835 |
Michael Perryman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere-possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to 'use' of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7841 |
Danny Jewell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's strict liability approach to the importation enhancement under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is correct |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
whether-possession-of-a-firearm-beyond-the-five-year-post-release-period-is-a-crime |
| 21-7832 |
Daniel Casamayor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if Casamayor's indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm is valid in light of Rehaif… |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1414 |
Barton Ray Crandall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-1392 |
Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court |
Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7721 |
Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7638 |
Carlos Jimenez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 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 |
| 21-7630 |
Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation |
Whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degree murder |
| 21-7622 |
Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7623 |
Mary Ann Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity in prosecutions under Title 21, Section 841 |
| 21-7624 |
Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require proof of a specific predicate offense? |
| 21-7612 |
Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery is a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2's generic, enumerated offenses clause |
| 21-7569 |
Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution |
allowable-unit-of-prosecution-for-18-usc-1591(a) |
| 21-7529 |
Jesse Dean Mince v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7495 |
Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court |
Does the definition of 'delivery' in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qualif… |
| 21-7459 |
Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) |
| 21-7432 |
Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint |
| 21-7433 |
Donnell Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7444 |
Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition |
When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins… |
| 21-7450 |
Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-7403 |
James Calvin Breeden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion |
Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 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? |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Massachusetts courts' construction of the 'mandated reporter' statute violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and being unc… |
| 21-7398 |
Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the 'public-welfare-exception' to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve 'dangerous-an… |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a petitioner's false carrier letter must be considered as the ultimate basis of a defendant's commission of a crime under 35 U.S.C. 35530 |
| 21-7330 |
Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim |
| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'machinegun' found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? |
| 21-7291 |
Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7268 |
Ross Anthony Farca v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in 'damage to or loss or destruction of property' of… |
| 21-1193 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Eric Wadkins |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-membership |
What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an 'Indian' under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-7222 |
Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine |
Is the term 'involved' under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through the … |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere reckl… |
| 21-7207 |
Robert Brewer v. New York |
New York |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7197 |
Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su… |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United St… |
| 21-1158 |
Joseph Percoco v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process fiduciary-duty government-decisionmaking honest-services-fraud political-influence public-corruption |
Does a private citizen who holds no elected office or government employment, but has informal political or other influence over governmental decisionm… |
| 21-7156 |
Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 21-7158 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7151 |
Quentin Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force |
What constitutes a threat of physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit misconstrued 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) to find that an escape from custody imposed 'by virtue of ... conviction' includes placemen… |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech? |
| 21-7116 |
Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen 'standard' supervised-release conditions… |
| 21-7129 |
Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea |
Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed? |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
What is the mens rea of generic 'aggravated assault' — ordinary recklessness, extreme indifference recklessness, knowledge, or something else? |
| 21-7086 |
William L. Whitefield v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7093 |
Jameson LaForest, Robert Wesley Johnson, and Keith Marvel Walton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law due-process hobbs-act pinkerton-liability reconsider-pinkerton |
May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspiracy? |
| 21-7069 |
Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether bank robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed on Mrs. Rambo constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of her Eighth Amendment rights? |
| 21-1058 |
Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute nonIndians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-7013 |
Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity |
Does the ex post facto prohibition preclude a state from charging a defendant with a newly defined capital crime under a retroactivity provision |
| 21-6993 |
Damon Willis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen |
Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal… |
| 21-6946 |
Gregory Lozado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing |
Does Colorado felony menacing qualify as a crime of violence under the Guidelines force clause after Borden v. United States? |
| 21-6942 |
Alison Gu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether making false statements on a passport application form violates 18 U.S.C. § 1542 |
| 21-6915 |
Maxwell Gaffney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing |
Whether the enhanced penalty provision of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) requires a showing of proximate causation |
| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor? |
| 21-6926 |
Willie Wilcher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether the Lower Courts had jurisdiction to decide the case based on Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 814 (2019), and the government never proved … |
| 21-6929 |
Rozelle Summerise v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-1009 |
Oklahoma v. Robert Taylor Bragg |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-18 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-1001 |
Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon… |
| 21-994 |
John Kapoor v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional practice |
| 21-6825 |
Diana Bustamante v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6826 |
Todd Stands Alone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether common-law simple assault is an essential element of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) |
| 21-6816 |
N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability |
Whether Colorado's interpretation of a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-985 |
Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-6785 |
Jarvis Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b |
Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr… |
| 21-6786 |
Semaji Warren v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6787 |
Rondale Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the motive was a but-for cause of the violen… |
| 21-6781 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing |
Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws |
| 21-6768 |
Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi… |
| 21-6748 |
Jose Luis Wong v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence |
| 21-961 |
Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler |
| 21-905 |
Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6642 |
Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the application note defining 'dangerous weapon' is overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie by defining 'possession' to include merely pretending t… |
| 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 |
| 21-6614 |
Mario Martell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering |
Whether the Hobbs Act, in accordance with constitutional limits, only punishes a robbery when the Government proves that the robbery itself affected i… |
| 21-6625 |
Derrick Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6589 |
Lamont Guinyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6605 |
Jermaine Jackson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6573 |
Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Does § 3583(e)(8) as applied here violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by authorizing punishment beyond the maximum for a conviction, based solely o… |
| 21-6581 |
Derek Jerome Moore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce |
Whether Congress exceeded its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)? |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court may place determinative weight on the government's charging language when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. U… |
| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces… |
| 21-834 |
Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party |
Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th… |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed… |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? |
| 21-816 |
Melvyn Gear v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether other subdivisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) require knowledge of collateral law |
| 21-6439 |
John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard |
May the state, consistent with Due Process, criminalize innocent behavior? |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com… |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-798 |
Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-6406 |
Damoni Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-772 |
Oklahoma v. Stewart Wayne Coffman |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-773 |
Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-767 |
Clinton Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-729 |
Shirene Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether after Skilling, the 'right of honest services' described in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 must be defined in relation to a specific fiduciary duty against … |
| 21-6265 |
Jonathan Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions |
Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense is violated when the district court wrongfully declines … |
| 21-704 |
Oklahoma v. Samantha Ann Perales |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-6233 |
Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine |
Did the courts below err in convicting the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine? |
| 21-6234 |
Edward Stain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not clearly establish that a jury unanimously based it… |
| 21-6249 |
Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl… |
| 21-6200 |
Jesus Ruiz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing |
Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
Whether the court should resolve the circuit split on recognizing sentencing entrapment and sentencing manipulation doctrines as viable defenses at se… |
| 21-6218 |
Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an employee of a private corporation can be considered a 'public servant' for purposes of a state statute criminalizing attempts to influence … |
| 21-6166 |
Ángel De la Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
Whether pre-First Step Act Safety Valve covers Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act offenses since those offenses' punishment elements are defined by 21 … |
| 21-658 |
Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 21-6145 |
Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-644 |
Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-state-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-645 |
Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-6111 |
Jonas Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that Mr. Ross distributed the controlled substance that resulted in the death of K.P. is in conflict with Burr… |
| 21-6112 |
Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California |
California |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the California criminal street gang laws are unconstitutionally vague |
| 21-6118 |
Kevin Folse v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime |
Does New Mexico's aggravated battery statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-6119 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release |
Whether the First Circuit erred in finding a violation of supervised release when the defendant reported to register per SORNA requirements within 24 … |
| 21-6071 |
Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) |
| 21-608 |
Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-6087 |
Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment |
| 21-6044 |
Kenneth Jay Still v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant prohibited from possessing a firearm may not present a justification defense if he or she… |
| 21-6056 |
Terrance V. Frelix v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines applies when the defendant did not know that the drugs were imported |
| 21-6020 |
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.4 requires a… |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-6014 |
Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Did the Eleventh Circuit reversibly err in affirming a conviction for which the Government failed to prove the essential element of knowledge or reaso… |
| 21-5993 |
Michael Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, befor… |
| 21-551 |
John J. Watford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5958 |
Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-5960 |
Alexander Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus attempt attempt-offense criminal-law criminal-statute entrapment overt-act predisposition substantial-step |
Whether the requirement of a 'substantial step' can be satisfied by conduct occurring after the alleged attempt has ended |
| 21-5908 |
Miguel Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process evidence public-trial right-to-counsel |
Whether Martínez's constitutional rights were violated at every stage of his trial when he was removed from the courtroom, denied his right to be pres… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-502 |
Oklahoma v. Terrance Lucas Cottingham |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-5891 |
Archie Ned Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation |
Must the use of physical force required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant convict… |
| 21-496 |
Martez L. Smith v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires an o… |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-487 |
Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-488 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-5843 |
Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming a jury instruction that allowed conviction for sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) without proof… |
| 21-5827 |
Jerry Ray Craine v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) |
| 21-5804 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states |
Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-5731 |
Sheridan Sisk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 21-427 |
William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment |
| 21-429 |
Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (22)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5673 |
Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 18 USC 2251 (a) is overbroad |
| 21-5661 |
Raymond Moya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) |
| 21-5650 |
Carl Richard Samson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 21-5657 |
Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether armed bank robbery constitutes a crime of violence under the categorical approach of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-5659 |
Willie Powell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez |
Whether the 'minimal nexus' test employed by the Eleventh Circuit to affirm Mr. Powell's conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g) as a felon in possession o… |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) includes substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act |
| 21-5610 |
Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51 is a crime of violence |
| 21-5627 |
William Brinson Ball v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States |
| 21-5631 |
Elton Vallare v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
What is the unit of prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-370 |
Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-371 |
Oklahoma v. Jeffery Arch Jones |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-372 |
Oklahoma v. Charles Michael Cooper |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-373 |
Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-5595 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
whether-the-enhanced-penalty-for-death-resulting-from-use-of-a-substance-requires-proof-of-proximate-cause |
| 21-5586 |
Tyrone Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act motion-to-vacate sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery meets the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) |
| 21-5560 |
Gary Lamar Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes |
Whether Pinkerton liability applies to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) violations |
| 21-319 |
Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-321 |
Oklahoma v. Ryan Cortlan Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-322 |
Oklahoma v. Joseph Harjo |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-324 |
Oklahoma v. Kadetrix Devon Grayson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-325 |
Oklahoma v. Matthew Steven Janson |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-law due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-326 |
Oklahoma v. Devin Warren Sizemore |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-334 |
In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer |
|
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
|
article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing |
Whether 'liberty' in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power? |
| 21-5551 |
Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the finding of guilt in accordance with La. B.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no spec… |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve this significant circuit split and the Ninth Circuit's failure to follow binding precedent from this Cou… |
| 21-5523 |
Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt |
Does the jurisdictional element 'in or affecting interstate commerce' in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce and… |
| 21-5494 |
In Re Eric W. Poirier |
|
2021-08-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing |
Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Cou… |
| 21-5503 |
Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-274 |
Oklahoma v. Johnny Edward Mize, II |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-25 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-law due-process federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-v-oklahoma |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5478 |
Ulises Alvarado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release |
Is it a violation of due-process for a defendant to have his supervised-release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c… |
| 21-5484 |
Sylvia Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase |
Whether the 'straw purchase' offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) requires the defendant to have known the seller was a 'Licensed Dealer' |
| 21-5455 |
Emmanuel Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-5457 |
Brian Fierro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of Hobbs Act robbery too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring violent physical fo… |
| 21-259 |
Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-252 |
Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5432 |
Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove the defendant's knowledge of the specific elements of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence in a prosecution unde… |
| 21-5397 |
Jesse Carey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery |
Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi… |
| 21-5400 |
Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.S.S… |
| 21-5332 |
Efrain Hidalgo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the activity enhancement under 18 U.S.C. 2241(c) violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-183 |
Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause reaches any conspiracy whose object is to interfere with any lawful government function, even if not targeted… |
| 21-5326 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) |
| 21-169 |
James Gatto, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1843 requires the Government to prove the object of the alleged wire fraud scheme was to obtain money or property |
| 21-171 |
Joel Zupnik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the verbs in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require the defendant to transform the minor's will or merely attempt to cause unlawful sexual activity |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should defer under Chevron to an agency interpretation of federal law when the federal government affirmatively disavows Chevron defere… |
| 21-143 |
Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 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 |
| 21-5174 |
Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5154 |
Dakota Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction |
In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is a lesser-included-offense of an unconstitutional-statute authorized by federal-statute |
| 21-5147 |
Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena |
Whether the Tihnors Kidnapping Statute's divisible state statutes, as defined in Mathis v. United States (136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016)) and Descamps v. Unite… |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(1)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B), and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsections … |
| 21-69 |
John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement |
Whether the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a scienter element for felonies that are not public welfare offenses and carry serious penalt… |
| 21-5128 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud |
Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 21-5097 |
Johann Brito v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation |
Is the attempted commission of an offense, like Hobbs Act robbery, automatically and categorically a crime of violence, whether or not the substantial… |
| 21-5112 |
David Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Is the attempted commission of an offense, like Hobbs Act robbery, automatically and categorically a crime of violence, whether or not the substantial… |
| 21-54 |
In Re Chad Anthony Ray |
|
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure |
Whether federal marijuana laws are constitutional |
| 21-56 |
Timothy Muir v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury |
When that predicate state usury statute includes a legal element - that is, 'not being authorized or permitted by law to do so,' N.Y. Penal Law 190.40… |
| 21-5101 |
Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release |
Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement |
| 21-5105 |
Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States that a carjacker's intent to seriously harm or kill the driver can be conditioned on th… |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5086 |
Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard |
Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the 'lawful course of professional practice' is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f… |
| 21-5057 |
Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent |
| 21-5065 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines a single offense or two (or more) separate and divisible offenses |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States |
| 21-5028 |
David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing |
| 21-5013 |
Arnold Council v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a pr… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5021 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in ~ section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) |
| 21-5002 |
Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations |
Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that Mr. Robinson was not entitled to a jury instruction regarding the affirmative defense o… |
| 20-8466 |
Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals unlawfully usurped the role of the legislature in violation of the separation-of-powers principles |
| 20-8475 |
Plutarco Angulo-Aguirre v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure conspiracy criminal-law due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
Issue 1 |
| 20-8361 |
Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation |
Does a purely local home invasion satisfy the interstate commerce nexus element of the federal kidnapping statute? |
| 20-8362 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment judge-made-law Pinkerton-liability substantive-offense substantive-offenses |
May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspiracy? |
| 20-8370 |
Loranzo Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 20-8330 |
Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-8306 |
Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent |
Whether the 'government inducement' element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent |
| 20-8310 |
Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific fin… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 20-8275 |
Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of Hobbs Act robbery too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring violent physical fo… |
| 20-1713 |
Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution: (1) (a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 20-8257 |
Oscar Daniel Rios Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16a bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law federal-statute legal-definition recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §16(a) includes offenses that may be committed by the reckless infliction of bodily injury? |
| 20-1702 |
Jimmy Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation |
Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and 18 … |
| 20-8238 |
Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'con… |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illegal d… |
| 20-8201 |
Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation |
Does a 'found in' violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, or when the alien is 'found in' the United States by immigrat… |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 |
| 20-8186 |
Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that 18 United States Code Section 1716 prohibits as non-mailable an inert… |
| 20-8143 |
Merwin Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) |
Whether federal prosecutors can introduce evidence of a person's prior conviction for unlawful gun possession in a prosecution based on police testimo… |
| 20-1635 |
Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny |
Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8094 |
Corey L. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a covered offense pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, do… |
| 20-8071 |
Delson Marc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g) may be affirmed even though the indictment did not charge, and the government did not prove, … |
| 20-8072 |
Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b)'s internet-based enticement element satisfied when two people who already know each other have sex after exchanging non-specifi… |
| 20-8077 |
Kavoris Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
Whether jury findings impact sentencing |
| 20-1593 |
Devon E. Sanders v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause takes into account only the essential facts for establishing the elements of two offenses |
| 20-8064 |
Derrick Grant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a private prison employee assisting federal marshals is covered under 18 U.S.C. § 1114 |
| 20-8066 |
James Hill v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal government may obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on the purely local possession of a firearm that has previous… |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the 'relating to' language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8047 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7998 |
Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery |
Does Hobbs Act jurisdiction extend to a local robbery of a local individual not engaged in interstate commerce or any federally regulated activity, by… |
| 20-8018 |
Deshaun Tisdale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm |
Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline purposes |
| 20-7950 |
Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and hold that a prior conviction is an element of the aggravated form of the ille… |
| 20-1547 |
Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… |
| 20-7909 |
Juan Pablo Price v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable |
| 20-1522 |
United States v. Malik Nasir |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-7890 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing |
Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due-process, due-process, fifth-amendment, first-step-act |
| 20-7855 |
James Ayers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the ACCA) 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of recklessnes… |
| 20-7866 |
Paul Demetrius Lamar Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause physical-force pinkerton-conspiracy pinkerton-liability postal-robbery residual-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a conviction sustained under a Pinkerton conspiracy theory satisfies the elements clause of the 'crime of violence' definition |
| 20-7867 |
Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes |
Does the Double Jeopardy Clause permit charging multiple 'status crimes' for a single criminal act? |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-1459 |
United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) |
| 20-7778 |
Gerald Scott v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the 'use of physical force against… |
| 20-7746 |
Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960 requires the defendant to know the type and quantity of the drug involved in the offense? |
| 20-1427 |
Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa… |
| 20-7701 |
Samuel Alex Gann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass |
Whether a burglary statute that omits the element of specific intent qualifies as generic 'burglary' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-7663 |
Andre Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment |
Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-7632 |
Shannon D. Hixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether a defendant may be convicted under the 'death results' provision of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) without instructing the jury that it must decide … |
| 20-7609 |
Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7593 |
Fernando Clarke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute |
Whether the government's own action in uploading a file containing child pornography from the defendant's folder on a peer-to-peer network to the gove… |
| 20-7547 |
Saloman Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence are in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedents in (1) Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004),… |
| 20-1335 |
A. P. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute |
Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-7496 |
Maurice Spriggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether federal carjacking qualifies as a crime of violence? |
| 20-7497 |
Kevin Reid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 20-7473 |
Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-1295 |
United States v. Timothy Zachary Green |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-7447 |
Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause |
Whether the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA'), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7417 |
Allen Pace, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7426 |
Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases |
Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr… |
| 20-7430 |
Carlos Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a predicate crime of violence |
| 20-7412 |
Anthony W. Gardner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7413 |
Zelos Fields v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7379 |
Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges |
Can a criminal defendant be charged and convicted with multiple conspiracies for a single continuous conspiracy act without violating right to be free… |
| 20-7382 |
Calvin Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7393 |
Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7359 |
Karen Gagarin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does 'another person' in the aggravated identity theft statute include someone who consented to the felonious use of her identifying information? |
| 20-7360 |
Emmanuel Feaster v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that petitioner Emmanuel Feaste… |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior … |
| 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… |
| 20-7315 |
Ursula Owens v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability |
Is Ohio's felony murder statute, and Petitioner's conviction and 15-years-to-life sentence thereunder, unconstitutional in violation of the Fifth, Six… |
| 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 |
| 20-7301 |
Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment |
Whether federal criminal punishment of the receipt and possession of unregistered suppressors under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871 exceeds Congress's p… |
| 20-7282 |
Earl Malloy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7285 |
Cedric Durand Collins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline. § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit n… |
| 20-7286 |
Kashus Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 |
Viguens Cius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7243 |
David Linehan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires the government to allege and the jury to find that the defendant threatened to injure a specific natural person |
| 20-7244 |
Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a 'crime of violence' within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(a) |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room |
| 20-7253 |
Nancy Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes applies to the elements of drug type and quantity |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) can serve as a predicate offense for the substantial sentencing enhancements under § 924(c)(1) |
| 20-7215 |
Sunni Askari Newell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms … |
| 20-7217 |
Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine |
Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not actual… |
| 20-7204 |
Shane Faithful v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully 'dispensed' the substance, u… |
| 20-7183 |
Shameke Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 20-7167 |
Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment under 21 U.S.C. § 841 without proof that he knew the drug type and quantity |
| 20-7140 |
Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry |
Whether the government must prove that a defendant charged with illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) knew he fell within the relevant status categ… |
| 20-7145 |
Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error |
Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7146 |
Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits |
| 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 |
| 20-7122 |
Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states |
Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement |
| 20-7090 |
Michael David Omondi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass |
Does Section 1382 codify the common law of trespass, such that Petitioner could be convicted for unlawfully entering a military installation when he c… |
| 20-7087 |
Brian James Holland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
What is the definition of the term 'force' under 18 U.S.C. § 2241? |
| 20-7038 |
David Paul Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) must be reversed |
| 20-7036 |
Emmanuel Ravell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error |
Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State… |
| 20-7043 |
Kevin Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020)? |
| 20-7020 |
Richie Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether intent to cause bodily injury is required for 18 U.S.C. §111(b) violation |
| 20-7021 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons |
Whether a 'deadly or dangerous weapon' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-6964 |
Dallas Ray Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6975 |
Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error |
Whether prejudice should be presumed under the 'substantial rights' prong of plain-error review for Rehaif-derived trial errors |
| 20-6978 |
Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18-U.S.C-924(c) |
| 20-1017 |
Lawrence Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether innocent transitory possession is an affirmative defense to illegal possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) |
| 20-6918 |
Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt |
Whether a defendant is provided fair warning under due process when a federal statute is applied to create a federal crime of conduct otherwise lawful… |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6938 |
Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions in this case |
| 20-6948 |
Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6949 |
Neally Cunningham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether Appellant's offense of conviction is a 'covered offense' under § 404 of the First Step Act |
| 20-992 |
John Vigna v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error |
Whether the denial of an accused request to introduce credible and relevant evidence that directly rebuts and contradicts the prior bad acts evidence … |
| 20-986 |
Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law? |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 20-6874 |
Jacob Earl Murphy v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process government-fraud standing |
Whether the law of civil conspiracy to defraud the government under 18 U.S.C. § 371 requires proof of an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy |
| 20-6878 |
Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6867 |
Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense |
| 20-6840 |
Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of 'intimidation' of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6788 |
Brian Gene McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-6791 |
Alvin Christopher Penn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law felon-in-possession interstate-commerce minimal-nexus united-states-v-bailey united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-scarborough |
Whether United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), compels overruling Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563 (1977) |
| 20-6776 |
Charod Becton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment |
Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6754 |
Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6755 |
Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6756 |
David Ray Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an element |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does the statute SC Code Ann. 8 10-3655 (8)(2) have unconstitutional requirements? |
| 20-6730 |
Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under McFadden v. United States, a defendant pleading guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the sub… |
| 20-6738 |
Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense? |
| 20-6742 |
Edward Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime |
Whether petitioner's argument under United States v. Davis, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), deserves closer scrutiny |
| 20-6720 |
Terek Harper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration |
Whether a federal criminal plea agreement is void and unenforceable when it lacks consideration |
| 20-867 |
Shalini Ahmed v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention |
Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a… |
| 20-6713 |
Danielle Devona Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses - 'carry or use' and 'possession in furtherance of' - and whether both elements must be expl… |
| 20-6710 |
Marlon Iron Crow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'reckless' mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for 'malice aforethought' for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1 |
| 20-6688 |
Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the defendant's stipulation at trial was plain error warranting relief on the sufficiency of the evidence |
| 20-6690 |
Randolph Burleson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense |
| 20-6671 |
Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-6660 |
Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola |
Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circuit s… |
| 20-6640 |
James David Perryman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6641 |
Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce clause and whether the statute requires knowledge of the interst… |
| 20-6622 |
Devon Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that bank robbery and armed bank robbery are 'crimes of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)? |
| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6594 |
Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines |
| 20-6585 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights were af… |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness after Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis |
| 20-782 |
Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process firearms-prohibition gun-ownership individual-liberty misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violate the Second Amendment? |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6539 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6540 |
Joshua N. Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance |
Whether the district court erred in its 'crime of violence' instruction to the jury |
| 20-6524 |
Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the State proved the essential element of 'without the consent' beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 20-6529 |
Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines section 2D1.1(b)(5) 'offense that involved the importation' of methamphetamine should be interpreted to include cert… |
| 20-6508 |
Jesse Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from unlawfully… |
| 20-761 |
Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault |
Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficient … |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing conduct rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision |
| 20-6481 |
Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea |
Whether the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory to establish a conspiracy conviction, when there is no evidence of deliberate action … |
| 20-6459 |
David Lee Garrett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 20-6450 |
Lee Yerkes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt |
Does Georgia burglary qualify as 'generic burglary' under the ACCA? |
| 20-719 |
Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation |
Does racial bias disproportionately affect the federal courts' treatment of marginalized people of color, when addressing the international treaty asp… |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 suffers from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and overbreadth as 18 U.S.C.A. § 201 under McDonnell v. U.S. |
| 20-6414 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they 'work at a United States prison' contravenes the requirements necessary to … |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6420 |
Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 20-6405 |
Joshua Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under McFadden v. United States, a defendant who pleads guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the s… |
| 20-6388 |
Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States, 1… |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp… |
| 20-6347 |
Christopher Mikelinich v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements |
Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an elem… |
| 20-6337 |
Tramaine Standberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance |
Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional? |
| 20-6305 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no… |
| 20-6311 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing |
Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pinkert… |
| 20-6277 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground |
Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6291 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no… |
| 20-6272 |
Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop to… |
| 20-6197 |
Gregory C. Raymore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated due to Rehaif violation |
| 20-579 |
Zimmian Tabb v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 20-6192 |
Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif guilty pleas be reconciled with one another? |
| 20-572 |
James R. Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires proof of a defendant's knowledge of their felon status or the firearm's interstate commerce connection |
| 20-575 |
Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the federal carjacking offense constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 20-6153 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death enhancement' of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation |
| 20-551 |
Jack Witt Voris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 |
| 20-555 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether the 'for the purpose of' element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-6130 |
Desmond Howard Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-6122 |
Jerome Capelton v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing |
Whether the First Circuit's application of the 'realistic probability' standard conflicts with other circuits |
| 20-6108 |
Antoine Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'special rule' exception to but-for causation is inapplicable to a 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) enhancement |
| 20-6109 |
Rashawn D. Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states |
Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 should apply to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 20-6027 |
Michael Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of the substance's illicit nature |
| 20-5994 |
Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of… |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-5948 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-5949 |
Timmy Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession indictment jury-instructions mens-rea prohibited-status rehaif rehaif-challenge |
Whether Rehaif's mens rea requirement is limited to whether or not the defendant knew he was a convicted felon alone, or whether it requires him to kn… |
| 20-5959 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether error under Rehaif v. United States constitutes plain error |
| 20-5969 |
Robert Dinkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cts 2… |
| 20-444 |
United States v. Michael Andrew Gary |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did no… |
| 20-437 |
United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry |
Whether a defendant automatically satisfies the prerequisites of 8 U.S.C. 1326(d) solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be … |
| 20-5917 |
Eric Malmstrom v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation |
| 20-5912 |
Adam Alan Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) is vague, ambiguous, overbroad and a violation of due process |
| 20-5871 |
Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5891 |
Mauricio Alvarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, is unconstitutionally vague |
| 20-5868 |
Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a participant with a managerial role is excluded from being considered an 'average participant' for USSG § 3B1.2 minor role comparison |
| 20-5869 |
Michael Robert Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law |
Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 20-5877 |
Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 applies to all offenses or only offenses against the United States |
| 20-5879 |
Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the def… |
| 20-5854 |
Trumaine Muller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause |
Whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the government had to prove mens rea as to each drug offense and th… |
| 20-5861 |
Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional |
| 20-5772 |
Michael Portanova v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'categorical approach' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct |
| 20-5751 |
Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Al/mendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether the petitioner's convictions for aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, and ai… |
| 20-347 |
Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue |
Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
Whether a Circuit Split has arisen over the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(1) regarding simultaneous crimes |
| 20-5658 |
Martin Racioppi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's approach to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery statute is divisible is contrary to Mathis v. United State… |
| 20-5670 |
Henry Horace Givins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled-substance-… |
| 20-5672 |
David Kareem Turpin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-5640 |
Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in treating the limiting language 'against the person of another' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as mere surplusage |
| 20-5645 |
Virgil Nickens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano |
Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another? |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms convictions unless the second violation 'occurs after a prior con… |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5597 |
Rory Swenson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black |
Whether speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence may be criminalized as a 'true threat' unprotec… |
| 20-5585 |
Denis Nikolla v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test |
Whether the categorical approach requires courts to limit the plain language of a federal criminal statute to the generic definition, even when the st… |
| 20-5558 |
Anthony Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession |
Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith kn… |
| 20-240 |
Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia |
| 20-5457 |
Dennis A. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5470 |
German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5430 |
Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard |
Was there sufficient evidence of utter disregard for human life to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction? |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
Whether a 130-month prison sentence for a non-violent, drug dealing, 50-year-old, military veteran is unreasonable |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as 'felony drug offenses' under 21 U.S.C. 851 |
| 20-5421 |
Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation |
Whether simple possession under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) is a legally permissible racketeering predicate incident under Fla. Stat. §§ 895.02(1)(a), 8… |
| 20-5347 |
Bakari McCant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 attempt crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element of the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as 'a crime of vio… |
| 20-5348 |
Chazdin Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-146 |
Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Section 20A.03 of the Texas Penal Code is unconstitutional |
| 20-5336 |
Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley |
Delaware |
2020-08-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct |
Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
Whether an offense is 'punishable by imprisonment for more than one year' when the maximum term permitted by the applicable statutory sentencing schem… |
| 20-5302 |
Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court must employ the presumption against extraterritorial application and the rule of lenity in interpreting a sentencing guideline enhance… |
| 20-5284 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 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 |
| 20-5245 |
Victor John Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as 'a crime of violen… |
| 20-87 |
George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether Indian status under the Major Crimes Act is a jury question |
| 20-60 |
Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official |
Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, unilat… |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-5132 |
Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner is actually, factually, legally, and lawfully innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) conviction |
| 20-5076 |
Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic 'theft' offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 20-5079 |
Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 20-5080 |
Christopher George Wiggin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 20-5055 |
Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation |
Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 20-5057 |
Ledinson Chavez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate |
Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States? |
| 20-5026 |
James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction |
Does the power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations include the prosecution of a volunteer missionary who engages in noncommercial illicit sexual… |
| 20-5016 |
Ashton Charles Butler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) define a single offense or two separate and divisible offenses? |
| 20-5002 |
Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health |
Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 20-5008 |
Emilio Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-8914 |
Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind |
Hobbs Act extortion definition |
| 19-8929 |
Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-8884 |
Samuel Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior Georgia robbery conviction constitutes a 'crime of violence' for enhancement purposes |
| 19-8890 |
Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8878 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 19-8828 |
Michael Jerald Leggett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-crimes attempted-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act specific-intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step violent-crimes |
Whether attempted commission of an offense categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the 'additional special assessment' in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8810 |
Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does North Carolina's offense of felonious breaking and/or entering qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'elements clause' of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness |
| 19-8731 |
Edson Gelin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense |
Whether the defense is entitled to a buyer-seller jury instruction when the instruction is part of the theory of defense and otherwise necessary for a… |
| 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… |
| 19-8720 |
Ankit Puri v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms immigration jury-instructions rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the indictment and jury instructions omitted an essential element of the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) offense |
| 19-8710 |
William Frazier v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-vicar-statute-is-subject-to-standard-rules-of-statutory-interpretation |
| 19-8688 |
Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8669 |
William M. Tyson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251(a… |
| 19-8679 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed |
Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if a defendant's substantial rights were … |
| 19-8662 |
Jason Paris Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-8637 |
Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should overrule the 'legislative override' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-8612 |
Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault |
Was Stamper's conviction in contravention of multiple decisions of this Court, including Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) and United St… |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-8583 |
Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense that can be committed by omission rather than affirmative act necessarily entails the 'use' of force within the meaning of 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8586 |
Roy Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled-substance-offense' |
| 19-1324 |
Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) require a plaintiff or prosecutor claiming an 'open pattern' of racketeering to all… |
| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
Whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question warranting full appellate review rather than summary disposition when a petitioner wi… |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a life sentence without parole for a 19-year-old violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 19-1303 |
Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California |
California |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Senate Bill 1437 added Section 1170.95 permit persons convicted of murder under the natural and probable consequences theory to petition for vaca… |
| 19-8493 |
Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd |
Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy despite the husband's PTSD diagnosis? |
| 19-8466 |
Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force |
Whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence of threatened use of force was speculation about sunglasses that may hav… |
| 19-8448 |
Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing |
Whether an 18-year-old defendant's de facto life sentence violates the Illinois proportionate penalties clause |
| 19-1275 |
Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction |
Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose 'Registry requirements for sex offenders,' 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convicte… |
| 19-8399 |
Reshon Tolliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
Whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-8340 |
Christopher Scruggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether 'knowingly engaged in distribution' in sentencing guideline 2G2.2(b)(3)(F) requires knowledge that files are accessible online or only general… |
| 19-8282 |
In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
Did reasonable jurist debate whether California Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbit… |
| 19-8263 |
Larry Wesley Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter… |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8195 |
Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 the dismissal was a specific-intent |
| 19-8183 |
Jose Nogales v. California |
California |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the retroactive application of California's Senate Bill No. 1391 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether concurrent sentences are mandated by statute when the petitioner was found to have caused bodily harm, not severe bodily injury |
| 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 |
| 19-8106 |
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 |
| 19-8071 |
Curtis Dion Earley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 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 … |
| 19-1151 |
Rohit Kumar v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-law due-process federal-judges judicial-misconduct judicial-safety judicial-threats legal-proceeding petition-language procedural-irregularity threat-of-violence threats violence |
Will the Supreme Court Justices order the killing of Federal Judges and Appeals Court Judges? |
| 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? |
| 19-8026 |
In Re Jonathan A. Hampton |
|
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial |
Does the petitioner in a habeas proceeding have an inherent constitutional right to be enlarged upon his personal recognizance in the interest of his … |
| 19-8038 |
Jermaine James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 19-8043 |
Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a 'crime of violence' that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 19-7984 |
Danny Pereda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
Whether it is unconstitutional to provide such discretion to courts to deny defendants their Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and instead impose … |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid |
| 19-7965 |
Cedric Edney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b |
Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First Step Act o… |
| 19-7949 |
Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means |
Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail-fraud, theft-of-public-money, wire-fraud |
| 19-7952 |
Michael Deon Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the language 'death or serious bodily injury results from' in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or pr… |
| 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… |
| 19-7896 |
Nicholas Hughes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit shall be permitted to remain an outlying jurisdiction insofar as it interprets the phrase 'for the purpose of' to require… |
| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a 'prior conviction for a felony drug offense,' increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in deferring to the lower court's finding, that Mr. Harris was not prejudice during his guilty plea sentencing hearing |
| 19-1084 |
Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi… |
| 19-7838 |
Anthony Shockey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification |
When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test, should the failure be treated as a crime or a manifestation of a disease? |
| 19-7797 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by holding a jury could rationally conclude that defendant pharmacist abdicated his duty under §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7778 |
James William Hill, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. §249(a)(2)(B)(iv)(D) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor? |
| 19-7757 |
Babatunde Popoola v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person who with the consent of a bank account holder provides identifying information to a third party to deposit funds into the account whe… |
| 19-1051 |
Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger |
Kansas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat |
Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot… |
| 19-7732 |
Jerad Hanks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-7646 |
Davion Fitzgerald v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation |
May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub… |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly apply the line of authority from this Court beginning with Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7664 |
Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of 'e… |
| 19-7633 |
Anthony Allen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt |
Whether the jury instruction that 'the law presumes that a person intends the ordinary consequences of his voluntary acts' violates the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 19-7635 |
Timothy Courtney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a defen… |
| 19-7637 |
Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a 'crime of violence,' under which an offense must have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 19-7620 |
Bradley Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss |
Whether Petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the kidnapping charge should have been granted where there was no evidence that Petitioner us… |
| 19-7587 |
Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence |
Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered |
| 19-7595 |
Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states |
Does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws? |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 19-7567 |
Richard Ben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence should be vacated |
| 19-7544 |
Robert M. Waggy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment |
Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose… |
| 19-7526 |
Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? |
| 19-7504 |
Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7520 |
Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7497 |
Richard Silvestri v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force |
Should the United States Constitution be construed to prohibit Congress from enacting Laws that punish people for extcaterritorial conduct under the C… |
| 19-7458 |
Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 19-939 |
Stephen Gustus v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense |
| 19-7423 |
Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government |
Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal … |
| 19-7434 |
Andrea Zambrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) |
| 19-7409 |
Melvin Pryor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a 'violent felony' having as an … |
| 19-7382 |
Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity |
Whether a generic aggravated assault requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness |
| 19-7323 |
Leo Stoller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that knowingly making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding violates … |
| 19-7308 |
Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution |
Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of 'Intentionally' and 'Knowingly' to the nature of the cond… |
| 19-7320 |
Jurden Rogers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 19-7335 |
Chad Prodoehl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a 'results in death' statutory enhancement can apply to a 21 U.S.C. § 846 conspiracy offense, and if so, whether that element must be agreed u… |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-7341 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress should re-evaluate the inequity in changing the enhancement level for prior drug felonies under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)-(B) but not… |
| 19-7343 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter |
Can voluntary manslaughter or any other homicide be used as an underlying felony to support felony murder? |
| 19-7313 |
Dalton Crutchfield v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of 'e… |
| 19-7251 |
William McNeal v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Florida's interpretation of 'essential element' is contrary to Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7217 |
Rickey Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-851 |
Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default |
Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-7195 |
Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Whether the Colorado statute on complicity in sex trafficking violates the First Amendment and due process rights of the defendant by criminalizing sp… |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA elements clause |
| 19-7113 |
Raynard Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether bank robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary? |
| 19-7076 |
Cedrick Ponder v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7103 |
Edward Merritt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to reaso… |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower tha… |
| 19-7072 |
Tyrone Walker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states |
Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 19-7078 |
Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i) |
| 19-809 |
Michael Bonin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on falsely assuming or pretending to be an officer or employee acting under the authority o… |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7062 |
Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation |
Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7049 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay |
Whether petitioner is being deprived of his civil rights due to undue delay in appellate ruling |
| 19-7040 |
Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings |
Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even … |
| 19-786 |
Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu… |
| 19-6979 |
Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 requires an element of 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the pe… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6975 |
Jason Lee Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6941 |
Michael Collins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony |
Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6942 |
Savon Germain Carter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution |
Whether the buyer-seller rule applies to all participants in a drug conspiracy, not just end-users |
| 19-6902 |
Samir Benamor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics that make its possession illega… |
| 19-6904 |
Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into 'any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6891 |
Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons |
Whether a defendant's attempted 'use' of a weapon of mass destruction includes conduct besides detonation |
| 19-6899 |
Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation |
Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering? |
| 19-6885 |
Antonio Escobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop |
Whether the mens rea requirement in 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) applies to drug type and quantity |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the but-for test in Burrage v. United States should be re-evaluated for mixed drug overdoses that result in death where no drug distributed by… |
| 19-6872 |
James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights |
Has the surgeon committed a second criminal act by concealing the mistaken incision location and performing a second corrective surgery? |
| 19-6840 |
Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness |
Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-6849 |
Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6850 |
Ledell Tyler v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
Whether The Meaning of The Word 'Force' Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompasses Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct |
| 19-6814 |
Issac Efren Jimenez v. California |
California |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-6820 |
Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code |
Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute |
| 19-6826 |
Jennifer Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense? |
| 19-6832 |
James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6793 |
Quentin Herndon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) |
Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6784 |
Jermaine Whyte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a strict-liability-offense-for-age-of-victim |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-667 |
Michael Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory phrase 'obtain property' has the same meaning in the federal fraud statutes as it does in other federal criminal statutes |
| 19-6748 |
Steven A. Adams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance offense' defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) is ambiguous |
| 19-6757 |
Jamal Bowens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6722 |
Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Did the Petitioner know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a gun or firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6720 |
James Dwayne Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6707 |
Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause is unconstitutionally vague due to the inclusion of 'physical force against property' as a basis for a… |
| 19-6711 |
Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A… |
| 19-6706 |
Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6678 |
Joseph Van Sach v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6682 |
Zhaopeng Chen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea |
Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan should be extended to criminal cases involving the defendant's knowledge as an element of the offense and the go… |
| 19-6653 |
Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence |
Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation,' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6652 |
Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United States v. Booker, 543 … |
| 19-6609 |
Chad Michael Stoner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting |
Whether a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmission of a threat for reposting video of a threatening incident on the ind… |
| 19-6621 |
Jaquan Walters v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter |
Does 'imperfect self-defense' exist as a partial defense to murder at federal common law? |
| 19-6623 |
Mario Denane Fultz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the use… |
| 19-6626 |
Allen Dodson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6569 |
Keyon W. Carraway v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclude that Rehaif v. United States requires knowledge of a firearm's inte… |
| 19-6538 |
Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove the element of knowledge as to the possession of child pornography c… |
| 19-6504 |
Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a 'violent felony' for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 19-6517 |
Lynden Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6496 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Did the petitioner's sentence for 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violate the statutory maximum? |
| 19-6489 |
Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2 |
| 19-6466 |
Eric Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery qualify as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 19-6420 |
Christopher Mark Heath v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm 'in furtherance of' the conspi… |
| 19-568 |
Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States, 13… |
| 19-557 |
Cedric L. McDonald v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault |
Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices |
| 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 |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1) |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6391 |
Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act |
Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that oc… |
| 19-6397 |
Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6370 |
Troy Bennett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-6353 |
Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the general, residual phrase 'takes any other action' in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6334 |
Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-6320 |
Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Hobbs Act requires an actual impact on interstate commerce or merely a potential/probable impact |
| 19-6307 |
Andrew Oreckinto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6279 |
Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force |
| 19-6282 |
Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. § 960(b) |
| 19-6289 |
Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. United S… |
| 19-6293 |
Dwight Knowles v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application |
Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-6297 |
Aleisha O. Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented aliens… |
| 19-6264 |
Orane Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the judgment should be vacated and the case remanded to the Second Circuit for consideration of whether § 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 ap… |
| 19-6236 |
Christina Marie Eichler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction |
Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users and … |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
Whether a state's aiding and abetting statute that is broader than the federal generic definition can qualify as a predicate offense under the ACCA |
| 19-6176 |
Christopher Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense |
Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclude t… |
| 19-6178 |
Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6155 |
Deounte Ussury v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes |
Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute requires a special verdict form where the statute requires unanimity as to … |
| 19-6131 |
Derrick Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional |
Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a 'crime of violenc… |
| 19-6107 |
Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges? |
| 19-6108 |
Corey Kidd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determination in the first instance of… |
| 19-6072 |
Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington |
Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1) and 22.011(a)(2) unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment right to Due Process? |
| 19-6078 |
Terreall McDaniel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant when his appeal is still pending? |
| 19-6055 |
Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? |
| 19-6025 |
Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio… |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a 'crime of violence' under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A), unde… |
| 19-374 |
Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing |
Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-5983 |
Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5994 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. California |
California |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-code-section-352 jury-instructions prior-acts-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial robbery-charges sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its rulings on the admissibility of evidence and jury instructions, resulting in prejudicial impact on the defendant'… |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal sentencing court can enhance a defendant's offense level based on conduct occurring entirely in a foreign country and not a crime ag… |
| 19-5956 |
Adrian Apodaca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence can be upheld under the definition of 'crime of violence' |
| 19-5975 |
Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud |
| 19-5976 |
Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5929 |
Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required before the two-level increase under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines may be applied |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress' decision to make the retroactive application of the First Step Act fully retroactive creates a significant risk that thousands of pr… |
| 19-5908 |
Howard Leon Combs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime |
Whether Texas aggravated assault involving reckless driving, virus transmission, or flashing strobe images constitutes 'the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 19-5882 |
Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires a state court to retroactively apply a narrowing interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 19-5891 |
Donte Island v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling |
Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions |
| 19-5893 |
Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing |
Whether the judge or the jury decides the issue of intent in a second-degree felony murder case where the underlying felony is inherently dangerous as… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act? |
| 19-5875 |
Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5852 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5835 |
Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic 'theft' offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(G)? |
| 19-288 |
Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment |
Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition against instructing juries that certain f… |
| 19-296 |
Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether Chevron deference takes precedence over the rule of lenity |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the appellate court's reliance on the unconstitutionally vague definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) requires remand f… |
| 19-5812 |
Mitchum Pastor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) bank robbery qualify as a 'crime of violence' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1)'s elements clause? |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5777 |
Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States extends beyond the definition of 'misdemeanor crime of violence' |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 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) |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5771 |
Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner's 3167 month sentence imposed as a result of this court's misinterpretation of the stacking provisions of 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A) is… |
| 19-5732 |
Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation |
To establish a 'realistic probability' that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of the categoric… |
| 19-5699 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 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 |
| 19-5601 |
Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of their… |
| 19-5571 |
Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Perez's 18 U.S.C. §922(g) conviction should be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch… |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States |
| 19-5578 |
Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-179 |
Naora Ben-Dov v. Shoshana Zelda Sragow, aka Stacy Suzanna Sragow, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal continuous-accrual court-discretion criminal-law criminal-offenses dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review pleadings procedural-violation statute-of-limitations |
Should an action based on multiple civil and criminal offenses be considered from the first instance, the last known instance, or after evidence of nu… |
| 19-5460 |
Jose Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis |
| 19-5489 |
Azibo Aquart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering |
Whether a defendant acts for the purpose of maintaining or increasing his position in an enterprise under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering st… |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of Fla… |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 19-151 |
United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry |
Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime qualifies a… |
| 19-5383 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5401 |
Thomas Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) apply retroactively to defendant's raising motions to vacate their sentence… |
| 19-5370 |
Pedro Medina Castillon v. California |
California |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness |
Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims |
| 19-5358 |
Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision? |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-5311 |
Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules of C… |
| 19-5312 |
Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid in light of United States v. Davis |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a serious drug offense under the ACCA requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a violent felon… |
| 19-5236 |
Seab Nolen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession |
Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-5243 |
Larry Marvel v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense |
| 19-5198 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Does a 'substantial step' under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require evidence of intended 'Interpersonal physical contact' in order to rise to the level, and/o… |
| 19-5194 |
Edward Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5176 |
Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing |
Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 19-5196 |
Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering is broader than Armed Career Criminal Act burglary |
| 19-5166 |
Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate… |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-5150 |
Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 19-5096 |
Nicholas Rivera v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement |
| 19-5124 |
Arthur Durham v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 19-5098 |
Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states |
Whether the government must prove that a defendant knew the specific characteristic of a firearm that subjected it to registration under the National … |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
Does unarmed bank robbery serve as a predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using or carrying a firearm during and in re… |
| 19-5102 |
Dan Pizaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific… |
| 19-5061 |
Akeem Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) |
| 19-5063 |
Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element 'the use .. . of physical force against the person or property of another,' … |
| 19-5070 |
Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element 'the use...of physical force against the person or property of another,' under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply 'crime of violence' analys… |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 18-9793 |
Timothy Dale Gould v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) divisible for purposes of categorical analysis? |
| 18-9812 |
Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon |
What is the correct definition of 'dangerous weapon' under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3): (1) an object used in a manner likely to endanger life or inflict gr… |
| 18-1589 |
James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession |
| 18-9805 |
Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability |
Whether the statutory phrase 'can be used' contained in the definition of 'access device' at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove usab… |
| 18-9808 |
Manuel Reyes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-9772 |
William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Florida offenses of sale of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(1)(a)(1) and possession of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) are 'felo… |
| 18A1344 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether an appellate court may affirm a criminal conviction based on a novel theory of accomplice liability not presented to the jury or argued by the… |
| 18-9725 |
Jose Munoz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18A1336 |
Robert Rang v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'sexual activity' in a criminal statute requires physical interpersonal contact or can include non-contact conduct |
| 18-1552 |
Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud |
Whether unadjudicated traffic tickets constitute 'property' under the mail- and wire-fraud statutes |
| 18-9696 |
Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9699 |
Jose Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in … |
| 18-9687 |
Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce |
Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense? |
| 18-9673 |
George Djura Jakubec v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9684 |
David Prien-Pinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9620 |
Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution |
Is being a pedophile criminal? |
| 18A1302 |
Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the 'right to control' theory of wire fraud and loss calculation in cases involving government funding and un… |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-9643 |
Herichie Paul v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9610 |
Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing |
Whether the petitioner's alleged unlimited access to any and all modal and personal data under Florida law violates federal constitutional rights |
| 18-9575 |
In Re Phillip Love |
|
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation |
Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union? |
| 18-9541 |
Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 18-9483 |
Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether it is permissible for a state criminal court to predicate felony murder liability on an allegation of burglary that lacks sufficient bases in … |
| 18-9432 |
Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9465 |
Beth Galloway v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial |
Whether a judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violence' under US… |
| 18-9467 |
Koran McKinley Allen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9444 |
Gregory Greer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
whether-congress-may-criminalize-intrastate-firearm-possession |
| 18-9420 |
Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States and Ohio Supreme Court precedent in State v… |
| 18-9424 |
Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'knowingly' provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the 'generic' form of that offense? |
| 18-9394 |
Ward T. Evans v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law |
Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses |
| 18-9354 |
Donald Reddick v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) is categorically a crime of violence |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 18-9350 |
Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force |
Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself? |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi… |
| 18-9322 |
Edward Ray Crosby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violenc… |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9301 |
Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use |
Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that the confidential informant purch… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness? |
| 18-9290 |
Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings |
Does the State of California create a conflict under the U.S. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. by not providing a rational relationship between a legitimate… |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the 'vagueness challenge' of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is conside… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement |
| 18-9266 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in Section 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 18-9244 |
Danny Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9210 |
Curtis Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya and Johnson v United States invalidated the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3… |
| 18-9206 |
Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts |
Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11 |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9182 |
Aziz Mateen-El v. W. Robert Bell, Judge, Superior Court of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process fraud government-benefits immunity social-security |
Whether defendants under suspension can be criminally liable for fraudulently obtaining social security benefits |
| 18-9139 |
Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions |
Was the petitioner's original complaint properly dismissed as frivolous and without issuance and service of process? |
| 18-1396 |
Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying… |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred by holding there are 'no aggravated crimes' in North Carolina, when the Supreme Court has held in Al… |
| 18-9060 |
Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 |
Ex Post Facto Clause-application |
| 18-9071 |
Jason Moody v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of their f… |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Supreme Court should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law |
| 18-9019 |
Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the 'use' of another's identity without lawful authority |
| 18-1347 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity |
Whether the removal was due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-1349 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the motion to re-open was justified due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-8999 |
Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant knowingly intends his communications to be a threat |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim… |
| 18-8965 |
Olusola Olla v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness |
Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu… |
| 18-8911 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith |
Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea |
| 18-8931 |
Tajie Coleman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery satisfies the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-8913 |
Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8898 |
Melinda J. Campbell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 18-8847 |
Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt |
Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credible… |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute satisfy a district court's obligation under Rule 11 to es… |
| 18-8830 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states |
Whether recklessness is consistent with the 'use of physical force' |
| 18-1304 |
Richard Ashbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
Whether the courts below erred by failing to hold that this Court's decision in Burrage announced a substantive rule that courts must apply retroactiv… |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal … |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to 'locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8737 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States |
| 18-8738 |
Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A) |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether Act No. 92-601 is unconstitutional on its face because it omits the subject of legislation as passed by the Alabama Legislature |
| 18-8729 |
Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter |
Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can petitioner seek relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 2241 to address clarification of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) in the First Step Act of 2018? |
| 18-8625 |
Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Minois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a coe. 'contributin… |
| 18-8603 |
Gralyn Leon White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to apply the holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5 Cir. 2018) to Hobbs Act… |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT … |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States,136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply |
| 18-8494 |
Alberto Sostre-Cintron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-371 18-usc-641 conspiracy conspiracy-18-usc-371 criminal-conspiracy criminal-law district-court-proceedings morissette-standard morissette-v-united-states parties-to-the-proceedings statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence theft-of-government-property theft-of-government-property-18-usc-641 |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to support Alberto Sostre-Cintron's conviction of conspiracy pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §371 |
| 18-8445 |
Tommy McAdoo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force |
Should this Court accept review to resolve the conflicting 'intimidation' interpretations the Circuits have given the federal bank robbery statute? |
| 18-8455 |
Marc Shiroma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness |
Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crime o… |
| 18-8469 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of attempted enticing of a minor is committed when a person agrees to engage in consensual sexual activity with an adult that the pe… |
| 18-8417 |
Robert Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness |
Whether the mens rea element for a false claim prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 287 requires willfulness or mere knowledge |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8393 |
Irma Ovalles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-1182 |
Scott Ogle v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine |
Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8360 |
Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability |
Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in … |
| 18-8333 |
Jorge Sosa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering |
Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeering e… |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? |
| 18-8327 |
Robert Nathan Alm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A) |
| 18-8302 |
Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8311 |
Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8313 |
John Allen Newton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because the offense fails to requi… |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's sentence as an ACCA offender must be set aside, whereas O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 is not a viable enumerated offense predicate, based… |
| 18-8281 |
Michael Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court in Carter v. United States add an additional layer of proof to 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) such that the government must now prove beyond a reas… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-1141 |
Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine |
New Hampshire |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr… |
| 18-8256 |
Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8266 |
Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8211 |
Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation |
Can a person's height be a disability under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213? |
| 18-8200 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Texas legislature's strategic dismantling of the SAFE-Keeping proviso of the 1987-Amended Law violates substantive due process |
| 18-8205 |
Elamin Bashir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Whether the mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed for drug-trafficking conspiracy, because individualized jury finding as to quantity of d… |
| 18-1126 |
Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing |
Robbery-of-local-gas-station-for-$200-prosecuted-under-Hobbs-Act |
| 18-1122 |
Alpenglow Botanicals, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
26-usc-280e administrative-determination administrative-determinations administrative-law civil-rights criminal-culpability criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process irs irs-investigation section-280e standing tax tax-deductions tax-law |
Taxpayer's challenge to IRS authority to investigate federal drug law crimes and administratively determine criminal culpability under 26 U.S.C. §280E… |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
Is it unconstitutional for the Texas Legislature to authorize a greater punishment range and maximum punishment for aggravated assault - family violen… |
| 18-8076 |
Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define one or two crimes? |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the State of Georgia err and violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights by upholding a statute that lacks an essential element of the crime ch… |
| 18-8059 |
Christopher David Simmons v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-8064 |
Fernando Luviano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove a 'reasonable likelihood' that the falsified reports were written in contemplation of a poss… |
| 18-8068 |
Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8069 |
Eric Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation |
Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-8025 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness |
Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7993 |
Ronald Bedford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor |
Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service is a person assisting an officer … |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust… |
| 18-7973 |
Jaime Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-7979 |
Eric K. Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S:C. 924(c)(3) (B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7984 |
James Scott Ervin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due-process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determine… |
| 18-7936 |
Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRENCE OF MURDER? |
| 18-7950 |
Marquette Walker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure |
Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises? |
| 18-7878 |
John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence |
Whether the interpretation of conspiracy in the Fourth circuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from th… |
| 18-7883 |
Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing |
Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 18-7836 |
Michael Travis Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because the offens… |
| 18-7779 |
Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm |
Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a 'destructive device' |
| 18-7784 |
Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE S$. C. CODE ANN 44-53-370 TS OVERLYBRO&D AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? |
| 18-7744 |
Corey Clark v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity |
Does the state of Alabama ACV 2014-169 violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution? |
| 18-7722 |
Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea? |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7712 |
Andre Mims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7720 |
Howard Webber v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Can consent be a defense to aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A? |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' or 'violent felony'? |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force 'was used… |
| 18-7669 |
Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
| 18-7649 |
Sergeyi Bazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty |
When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), … |
| 18-7652 |
Brian Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017) |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7602 |
Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Wisconsin's burglary statute defines alternative means, making it broader than generic burglary and not a qualifying prior conviction under th… |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'knowingly' provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? |
| 18-7515 |
Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption |
Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) comports with the Due Process Clause as to the State's burden of proof |
| 18-7542 |
Pamela Suzanne Harnden v. St. Clair County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process implied-private-right implied-private-right-of-action kidnapping statute-of-limitations tolling |
Do the 5th and 14th Amendments justify the tolling of a civil action during the course of a criminal action? |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? |
| 18-7500 |
Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime |
Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7485 |
Marcus Noel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power |
Whether the federal Hostage Taking statute requires proof that the defendant knew the victim was a U.S. national |
| 18-7470 |
Carl Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether federal carjacking by way of intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s force clause |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 … |
| 18-927 |
Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness |
Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation … |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7445 |
Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? |
| 18-7453 |
Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7432 |
Cornell W. Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-7387 |
James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… |
| 18-7306 |
Michael Martin Steele v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video |
Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for 'ql… |
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether petitioner Willis's 'B&E Occupied' is a violent felony under ACCA? |
| 18-7331 |
Ishmael Douglas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) requires a minimum 10-year consecutive sentence |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must show a connection between the predicate offense and the crime of violence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-7291 |
Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial |
Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence? |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications — either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-7241 |
Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations |
Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity |
| 18-7183 |
Christopher Jude Martin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consequential-damages criminal-law criminal-valuation damages enhancements evidence legal-damages property-damage restitution restitution-order sufficiency-of-evidence valuation |
Whether there was sufficient evidence that the value of the items at the time that Mr. Martin damaged them was over $1,000? |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 18-7143 |
Derian Eidson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that 'in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7166 |
Gerard Mann v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7133 |
Paul Burks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty |
Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi… |
| 18-7152 |
Yosnel Bonet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7154 |
John Visconti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion |
Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a 'distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock,' the question expressly left open in Boulwa… |
| 18-7103 |
Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether the 'official restraint' doctrine precludes the possibility that a defendant can be illegally 'found in' the United States, for purposes of Ti… |
| 18-7109 |
Tshombe Miller v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution |
Is 'carbon copy' charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… |
| 18-7114 |
Earle D. Williams v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-7123 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2) satisfies the elements clause of t… |
| 18-7075 |
Patrick Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment |
Whether the decision below is irreconcilable with Lafler v. Cooper and the reasonable probability standard for analyzing prejudice in ineffective assi… |
| 18-7088 |
Oscar Raul Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner's prior state drug offenses qualified as enumerated offenses under the career criminal provision of the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 18-7032 |
Reginald L. Lomax v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state statute criminalizing possession of 'counterfeit' controlled substances qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-7036 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit… |
| 18-7056 |
David Leonard Johnson v. California |
California |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery |
Is the crime of receiving stolen property a lesser included offense of robbery, and if so, was the trial court's failure to instruct on receiving stol… |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence under the 's… |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-752 |
Edward Taupier v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats |
Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a 'crime of violence' |
| 18-6981 |
Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 18-6991 |
Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6977 |
James Edward Mitchell v. California |
California |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation |
Does the standard jury instruction for residential burglary in California violate the United States Constitution where it fails to convey that the 'di… |
| 18-6900 |
Jacob Scott Watters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions |
Is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause? |
| 18-6937 |
Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether defining 'induce' to mean 'to cause,' without further instructing on what must be caused, leaves defendants vulnerable to being convicted for … |
| 18-6956 |
Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law |
When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv… |
| 18-6914 |
Daniel Rojas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime |
What amount of force satisfies the definition of 'physical force' under Johnson v. United States? |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 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… |
| 18-6912 |
Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction fulfills the conviction requirement under the Federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 18-6858 |
Micah G. Pritchett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law |
Whether the Virginia offense of distribution of a controlled substance categorically qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under the U.S. Sent… |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States apply to offenses analyzed under the 'force clause' and… |
| 18-6865 |
Adony Nina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to Prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6870 |
James Frederick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force |
Whether causation of harm necessarily entails the use of 'violent force' under Curtis Johnson |
| 18-6852 |
Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no… |
| 18-6801 |
Van McDuffy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation |
What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6809 |
Desmond Camp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-682 |
Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation |
Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a 'means of identification of another person' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Whether California terrorist threats convictions under California Penal Code Section 422 are crimes of violence |
| 18-6798 |
Elvin Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by causing the victim to fear economic loss to an intangible asset, categorically qualifies as a cri… |
| 18-6748 |
Malachi M. Glass v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the broader Pennsylvania delivery of a controlled substance statute, 35 Pa. C.S.A. § 780-113(a)(30), qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offe… |
| 18-6757 |
Ronald Ray Norman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony |
What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-6768 |
Michael Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qualify… |
| 18-6771 |
Johny Gardner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a void statute can be used to increase punishment |
| 18-6751 |
Patrick McIntosh v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation |
Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny |
| 18-6714 |
Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure |
Whether the petitioner's sentence of 24-36 months was reasonable and should be taken into account to give the petitioner a sentence of 16 months |
| 18-6706 |
Jeremiah Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Should a crime that can be committed by reckless driving resulting in injury be a predicate offense for the Armed Career Criminal Act and its signific… |
| 18-6707 |
Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(… |
| 18-6712 |
Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty |
Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-6665 |
Maurice T. Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-616 |
Roger Nepal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law |
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-6671 |
Jimmy David Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
| 18-614 |
In Re George Houston |
|
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
|
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f… |
| 18-606 |
Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements |
Whether and under what circumstances a report to the Federal Election Commission that does not specify the ultimate recipient of a campaign disburseme… |
| 18-601 |
John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand |
Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-6563 |
Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6564 |
Cephus Hollis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle 't… |
| 18-6566 |
Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans? |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's… |
| 18-6583 |
Dionysius Fiumano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Does the undefined element 'scheme to defraud' in 18 U.S.C. § 1343 satisfy Fifth Amendment due process notice requirements? |
| 18-6589 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation |
When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render the … |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) |
| 18-6545 |
Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California |
California |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant's intent to commit robbery matters |
| 18-6468 |
Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden |
Whether the Government must allege and prove a connection to interstate commerce for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2 |
| 18-6413 |
Joshua Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a 'conviction' for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6360 |
Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3) |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro… |
| 18-6363 |
Calvin Bernhardt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Should this Court now define corruptly persuade' and settle the matter for itself and the circuits? |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6348 |
Eric M. Pence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution criminal-statute disorderly-conduct due-process electronic-communication fighting-words first-amendment free-speech true-threat true-threats |
Whether a message stating 'Hey, long time no talk, how have you been?' can be criminally prosecuted under a disorderly conduct statute as 'fighting wo… |
| 18-6322 |
Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6311 |
Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership |
Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma |
| 18-6313 |
Lacoya Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex-trafficking-crime |
| 18-6277 |
Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for felony battery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA's elements clause |
| 18-445 |
Tanya Ramirez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code |
Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |
| 18-6282 |
Iseal Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6241 |
Edward Jewell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio… |
| 18-6198 |
Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation |
Is a defendant guilty of social-security-fraud under 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) |
| 18-6169 |
Tracy L. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy |
| 18-6175 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law |
Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homi… |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6151 |
Claude Thelemaque v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony |
Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-6156 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Should first degree robbery with use of a dangerous instrument under New York Penal Law § 160.15(3) qualify as a crime of violence for purposes of the… |
| 18-6135 |
James K. Kahler v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2018-09-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 meet use of force' as defined in Johnson -v. United States U.S. __ (2010)? |
| 18-386 |
Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings |
Whether the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction is controlled by this Court's decisions upholdin… |
| 18-6100 |
Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16 |
| 18-373 |
Floyd Rose v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence und… |
| 18-6073 |
Tramain Deon Price v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute |
| 18-361 |
Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… |
| 18-6042 |
Ronald Eric Ary v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether a Texas deferred adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction for sentencing enhancement |
| 18-6004 |
Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university |
Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? |
| 18-6006 |
Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child-pornography crossed state-lines at an unspecified-prior-… |
| 18-5993 |
Douglas Roy Burns v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent |
Whether a state court must constitutionally recognize and allow a defense in the form of testimony and/or other relevant evidence which disproves the … |
| 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? |
| 18-5965 |
Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force |
| 18-5967 |
Matthew Wade Howard v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's … |
| 18-308 |
Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 18-5923 |
Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's restitution order was outside the statutory authority of the MVRA |
| 18-5935 |
Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(… |
| 18-5844 |
Rocco Tinoco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether a mental state of recklessness absent subjective intent to threaten is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 875(c) and any other… |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony 'controlled substance… |
| 18-5879 |
Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5882 |
Daniel Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5866 |
Nathan Mosley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad? |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain reading of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines requires that the prior offense be more than simple possession |
| 18-5809 |
Robert Carl Sharp v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness |
Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? |
| 18-5812 |
In Re Richard DeCaro |
|
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception |
Whether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 18-5746 |
Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is Florida Statute 784.045 impermissibly vague and/or does it encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement? |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the federal bank fraud statute plainly covered the defendant's conduct |
| 18-5762 |
Pedro Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5686 |
Dwight Mundle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony |
Was there enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c) |
| 18-5700 |
Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment |
Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law |
| 18-5678 |
Lee Andrew Paul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with Burrage v. United States regarding causation |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667 (2000), because the lower courts have interpreted it such that 'any funds f… |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 18-5655 |
Cory D. Foster v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a 'crime of violence' supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that attempted murder in Illinois is categorically a violent crime under 18 U.S.C. §924(… |
| 18-5632 |
Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness |
Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases |
| 18-5637 |
Afelix Desir v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense |
Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both 'Penile/Vaginal intercourse' unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |
| 18-194 |
Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration |
Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |
| 18-5577 |
In Re Adam D. Boylen |
|
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Powhower, as a stock owner for an independent farming company, not being a facility on plant, is a 'person' Congress exclusively defined in th… |
| 18-5478 |
Ryan Jennings v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy criminal-law due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud mortgage-assignment obstruction-of-justice real-estate-fraud witness-tampering |
To recover damages for a civil conspiracy claim, a plaintiff must show two or more persons, acting in concert, engaged in conduct that constitutes a t… |
| 18-5426 |
Gabriel Rivero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5444 |
Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause and Eighth Amendment by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists than on… |
| 18-5393 |
Shane McMahan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5363 |
Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines |
Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5385 |
Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights |
Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-5314 |
Shannon Dale Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) criminalize the defendant's subjective intent or the firearm's objective potential? |
| 18-5329 |
Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a violent felony' under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of John… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence |
| 18-5304 |
Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspec… |
| 18-5269 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Supreme Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in li… |
| 18-5251 |
Sarjo Dambelly v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness |
Whether, in light of Global-Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal ca… |
| 18-5238 |
Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a 'crime of violence' under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve relief violates equal protection,… |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Can an attempt offense be a predicate crime of violence for an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense? |
| 18-5177 |
Herman Majors v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is limit… |
| 18-5194 |
Teofil Brank v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation |
Whether threats to reputational harm fall within the ambit of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 |
| 18-5195 |
Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness |
Whether petitioner was denied due process of law when prosecutor misstated law, misstated testimony, and misstated evidence to the jury |
| 18-5107 |
Willard Quinn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force |
Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of 'crime of violence' can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5164 |
George Adrien Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the required intent for attempted inducement under § 2422(b) is the intent to cause a minor to engage in sexual activity (as the Eleventh Circ… |
| 18-5036 |
Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-5061 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 1385 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and … |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory langu… |
| 18-5028 |
Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering |
Did the court below err in ruling that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Appellant of using corrupt persuasion toward a witness with the in… |