criminal-penalties

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7709 Percy Leroy Jacobs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf criminal-penalties due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act trial-counsel von-moltke-v-gillies waiver whether-defendant-must-understand-elements-of-charged-offenses
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…
23A762 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration Whether a state's mandatory sex offender registration scheme that requires extensive personal disclosures and imposes criminal penalties for non-compl…
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…
22-5306 Micky Rife v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-i article-i-powers congress congressional-power constitution constitutional-interpretation criminal-penalties necessary-and-proper-clause treaty treaty-enforcement Does the Necessary and Proper Clause contained within Article I of the Constitution provide an independent basis for Congress to create criminal penal…
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…
20-572 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
20-5197 Lamar Moore, aka Kane v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-status criminal-penalties due-process factual-findings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-waiver second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements should-moore's-plea-and-conviction-be-vacated
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D…
19-6910 Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional Whether Article 42.013 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure contravenes Apprendi v. New Jersey by requiring judges, not juries, to make family-viol…
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…
19-5601 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…
18-9589 Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe…
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…
18-1122 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…
18-6162 Lyanne Lemeunier-Fitzgerald v. Maine Maine 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent-coercion criminal-penalties due-process implied-consent mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Does a motorist voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood draw if she has been warned that refusal to submit will result in a mandatory minimum perio…