| 25-619 |
Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 24-25 |
Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution hester-v-united-states jury-determination sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states |
Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2) can be applied to first-time offenders |
| 23-1146 |
Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension |
Minnesota |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma |
Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info… |
| 23-949 |
In Re David Erlanson, Sr. |
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2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers |
Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi… |
| 23-5868 |
Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the imposition of a mandatory eighteen-month jail sentence on a first offender for what might well be an entirely innocent regulatory infracti… |
| 20-5059 |
Christopher Goodin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment |
Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children… |
| 19-7057 |
Johnny L. Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death results' enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 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… |
| 19-6616 |
Alberino Magi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states |
Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 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 |
| 18-386 |
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… |
| 18-5541 |
Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax? |