| 24-5030 |
Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 |
Was it plain error for a district court to convict petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing indictment? |
| 19-6907 |
Robert Hendricks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error |
Isn't the erroneous admission of racially charged prejudicial evidence a structural error requiring automatic reversal or, at a minimum, one that requ… |
| 19-6418 |
Wayne Neville Morris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment |
Whether a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory can be sustained when the petitioner presents clear and convincing evidence that the accused, … |
| 19-6067 |
Francisco Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith |
Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the… |
| 19-5436 |
Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-5432 |
Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents |
| 18-8773 |
Emmanuely Germain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error |
Is the omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions harmless if there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction of a rel… |
| 18-674 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor cre… |
| 18-6635 |
Eddie Hampton v. California |
California |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions murder natural-and-probable-consequence natural-probable-consequence prejudice-standard premeditated-murder standard-of-prejudice |
Where she jury was erroneously instrycted on (a) Murder as a natural and presbable consequence per peopie vs chiu 39 cal 4th $35 172 cad Rotr 3d 438 3… |