| 25-5336 |
Terrell McCoy v. Stephen Duncan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5167 |
Monique C. Wallace v. Cedar Hill Dental |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
compensation evidence justice legal-action mental-health service |
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| 24-5926 |
Glenn Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing |
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| 24-5729 |
Jerome Coast v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5510 |
Dawayne Rolin Walker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure witness-testimony |
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| 24-5465 |
William Orren Dawes v. California |
California |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-process legal-procedure |
1) When is a Superior Court permitted to overrule
2) When is a person not entitled to a speedy trial?
3) If in civil courts a person is not entitled… |
| 24-5247 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act |
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into trial proceeding violate ,Brady Rule of Evidence under
Brad
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| 24-121 |
John Won v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence exceptional-circumstances interest-of-justice sixth-amendment two-way-video video-testimony |
Whether the Confrontation Clause contains an exception that permits the government to present testimony at a criminal trial by two-way video so long a… |
| 24-5207 |
E. C. v. Q. T. |
Texas |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-review legal-procedure witnesses |
Question not identified. |
| 24-105 |
Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards |
In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d… |
| 24-5143 |
Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. HAYEK'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HIS STATEMENT AND THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COUR… |
| 24-5075 |
DeTron L. Perry v. Jacob L. Streittmatter |
Nebraska |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure contradictory-testimony due-process evidence fair-trial |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5061 |
Joshua Isaac Martinez v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law evidence public-policy religion statutory-interpretation |
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| 24-5001 |
Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5011 |
Brandon Collins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion court-discretion due-process evidence eyewitness judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-analysis reasonable-doubt speedy-trial testimony-credibility |
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| 23-1360 |
Vernon Fiehler v. Catherine Mecklenburg, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure constitutional-provision evidence evidence-interpretation federal-survey geographic-determination judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-law water-boundary |
Whether a court has the power to disregard evidence of the location of a water boundary from a federal survey based on subsequent evidence of the body… |
| 23-1355 |
Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified "evidence" of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen… |
| 23-7771 |
Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court |
1. Is the Idaho state court in violation of the rule in Brady v. Maryland by changing
the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing… |
| 23-7777 |
Robert King Via, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment accomplice-testimony constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence witness-testimony |
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| 23-7766 |
Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit applied this Court's precedents in Bradshaw v. State and Barclay v. Marchand to exclude a defendant's custodial interrogatio… |
| 23-7715 |
Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7690 |
Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7699 |
Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment |
I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the def… |
| 23-7669 |
Anthony Bender, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency police-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-sentence witness-testimony |
1. Whether the government's failure to disclose the dash camera video constituted a Brady violation?
2. Whether a conviction based solely on the test… |
| 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 where the Government fail… |
| 23-7582 |
Manna Massaquoi v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
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| 23-7526 |
Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review |
Question One (1).
The lower Court and the Court of last resort affirmed a decision to allow the Defendant to
introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an… |
| 23-7528 |
Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony |
The district court erred by failing to grant a mistrial. Error in the following
four respects, viewed in aggregate, deprived Mr. Rentfrow of his Sixth… |
| 23-7511 |
Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
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| 23-7515 |
Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract |
Verbal agreements are contracts made by individuals through a verbal exchange. There need not be more information involved in an oral contract than ju… |
| 23-7491 |
Caesar V. Vaca v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-attorney |
Whether trial attorney's error resulted in the introduction
of evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) that led to
an unfair conviction.
OR
W… |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE… |
| 23-7438 |
Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure |
Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen… |
| 23-7379 |
Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
QUESTION 1(A): Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying CO A On The Claim Of
Prosecutorial Misconduct Where The State Pvefused To Reveal Evidence And Fa… |
| 23-7355 |
Demario Barker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-1181 |
Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment |
Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth … |
| 23-7326 |
Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement |
Whether the admission into evidence, through the testimony of decedent's 10-year-old daughter, of hearsay statements allegedly made by the decedent to… |
| 23-7295 |
Glen Taylor Helzer v. California |
California |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrant-scope |
Does the plain view doctrine apply where police enter and seize a home under a warrant to search for evidence of specified crimes, and forego getting … |
| 23-7255 |
Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine |
1. Whether the 11th Circuit Court erred when it did not consider Horace's medical records and expert witness statements raised in argument to the Dist… |
| 23-7172 |
JB Nicholas v. Judy A. Camuso, Commissioner, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife |
First Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burford-abstention civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment government-restrictions judicial-review occupational-liberty rational-basis |
Should the Court require Government-imposed restrictions on the 809-year-old personal right to occupational liberty, long-recognized by this Court as … |
| 23-7174 |
Richard Lee David Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence |
1. Whether the admission of two prior drug convictions for the purpose of arguing in closing that "[t]he defendant possessed that crack cocaine, and h… |
| 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 |
(1) 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 … |
| 23-1091 |
Call-A-Head Portable Toilets, Inc., et al. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. |
New York |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-proceeding confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Do the accused in State administrative proceedings have a Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses whose written testimony serves… |
| 23-7152 |
Sean Burton v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial |
WHETHER THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA VIOLATED THE BRADY RULE.
WHETHER PETITIONER'S STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHICH PR… |
| 23-7097 |
Travis C. Crosby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen… |
| 23-7087 |
Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
1. Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief because of the introduction of evidence at her … |
| 23-7078 |
Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment |
I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL… |
| 23-7057 |
Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-03-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
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| 23-7047 |
Renaire Roshique Lewis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coconspirator-hearsay counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel |
L. Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings; and
I. Whether Bourjaily v. United States permits the affirmance of the ad… |
| 23-7016 |
Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California |
California |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7004 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles |
Florida |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claim-dismissal discovery-process dismissal due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review pleading-sufficiency pleadings standing trial-court-discretion |
1) Whether the Trial Court erred as a matter of law by dismissing Petitioner's claim based upon the Lower Court's assertion that Petitioner failed to … |
| 23-6948 |
Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine |
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| 23-6952 |
Frantz Brifil v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE MANDATE OF CRAWFORD AND PROGENY BY INTRODUCING A NON TESTIFYING WITNESS'S OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENTS? |
| 23-6943 |
Michael Lawrence Kerlin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cross-reference disproportionate-effect due-process evidence evidence-standard pro-se-petition sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
1. Whether a cross reference which has a disproportionate effect on the sentence requires a higher standard of proof that mere proponderence.
2. Whet… |
| 23-6887 |
Brenda B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-credibility hearsay-rules witness-credibility witness-testimony |
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| 23-6859 |
Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification |
1. Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not
unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal I,… |
| 23-6865 |
Justus Onyiego v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel |
I. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REQUEST LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF AGGRAVATED RAPE CAUSING BODILY INJURY?… |
| 23-937 |
Joshua James Duggar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
|
alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an
alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's
conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal
def… |
| 23-6825 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness |
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| 23-6809 |
Warren Lee Mackey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony |
Circuits are applying different tests to gauge prejudice resulting from testimony that improperly bolsters or vouches for the testimony of another wit… |
| 23-6795 |
Gregory Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony hearsay laboratory-evidence laboratory-tests sixth-amendment |
Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is satisfied when an expert witness provides opinion testimony that is based on data from labo… |
| 23-6789 |
Randolph Maya v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence grand-jury grand-jury-testimony impeachment impeachment-evidence jury-instructions prior-inconsistent-statement substantive-evidence witness witness-testimony |
1. Can a party knowingly call a witness it expects to testify contrary to previous statements in order for those statements to entered as substantive … |
| 23-886 |
Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights |
In Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 11 (1978), this Court held that when the evidence the prosecution introduced at a criminal trial is legally ins… |
| 23-6763 |
Armani L. Moore v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability |
Whether a declarant is "unavailable to testify" for purposes of the Sixth Amendment, and as that phrase is used in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36… |
| 23-6748 |
Eric Lavell Minter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s… |
| 23-6711 |
Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony |
Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error. |
| 23-6715 |
Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure |
The police violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched Wilborne's backpack and recovered a firearm that formed the basis of the indictment filed … |
| 23-6678 |
In Re Tina Wagoner |
|
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence probable-cause |
Are the elements of the crimes charged justified by the facts presented in the above-stated evidence?
If prosecutorial discretion constitutes the abi… |
| 23-6679 |
Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence firearm jackson-v-virginia robbery sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia, 99 S.Ct. 2781 (1979), to support petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to commit robbe… |
| 23-6616 |
Fan Yang v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 |
Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to… |
| 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… |
| 23-6580 |
Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search |
This Court's prior precedent in Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987) and its progeny hold that a person's status as a supervised releasee, such a… |
| 23-6525 |
Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing |
DOES OBSTRUCTION PREVENTING DISPOSITIVE
MATERIAL EVIDENCE FROM BEING PRESENTED IN
COURT CONSTITUTE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES? |
| 23-6510 |
In Re Theodore C. Shove |
|
2024-01-18 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-evidence oath-of-office standing trial-procedure |
1 Based upon Certified Trial Court Record No Legal Search or Arrest
Warrants, or Returns of Any Evidence Exists, How can there be an
Appealable Judg… |
| 23-6489 |
Robert E. Harrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6468 |
Omar A. Rahman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence pennsylvania-superior-court right-to-counsel right-to-defense search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unlawful-arrest witness-testimony |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision, affirming the denial of Petitioner's suppression of physical evidence claim, conflicts with the de… |
| 23-6450 |
Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Where Defense Counsels and the Lower Court blatantly violate,
and ignore Federal Rule of Civil Procedures, Precepts, and Statutes in
handling Appellan… |
| 23-721 |
Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust |
This case arises out of a fraudulent conveyance action. It concerns whether certain real estate located in Ireland was held in trust—a question of fac… |
| 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 where (1) the evidence at best showed a conspiracy to dis… |
| 23-6386 |
Michael Andrew King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination criminal-procedure due-process due-process-rights evidence jury-instructions jury-trial mask-obstruction witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether an appellate court's traditional deference to credibility determinations made by jurors in returning a guilty verdict should give way where th… |
| 23-6354 |
Devonte Easterling, aka Devontae Easterling v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
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| 23-6341 |
Tramaine Edward Martin v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-process civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct |
1. Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence?
2. D… |
| 23-6270 |
Tony French v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6271 |
Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value |
The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu… |
| 23-6272 |
In Re Bruce Lamont Fuller |
|
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction standing statewide-importance statutory-provisions |
I.HOW SHALL WE HAVE A CONCLUSIVE ANSWER OF CORPUS OF STATEWIDE IMPORTANCE ,WHEN THIER HAS NOT BEEN AN EFFECTIVE ASCERTAINMENT OF EXPEDITIOUS TRUTH?DEL… |
| 23-6260 |
Charles E. Linder, Jr. v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure detective-testimony evidence evidentiary-objection firearm ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimony witness-credibility |
1. Trial counsel was ineffective in violation of his Sixth Amendment right under the US Constitution due to his failure to: (1) object to Detective Re… |
| 23-6158 |
Derrick Hunt v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's Motion to Suppress the Search of his computer when the Police searched pursuant to … |
| 23-582 |
Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
6th-amendment chain-of-custody confrontation-clause criminal-evidence evidence forensic-analysis lab-analysis lab-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent sixth-amendment |
Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant's seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Polic… |
| 23-6128 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fair-trial indigent-defense plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
I. Should a defendant's guilt or innocence be determined by their finances?
II. Before making a noninvoluntary and informed plea, should a defendant … |
| 23-6123 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
camera constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence law-enforcement perjury search-and-seizure suppression-hearing vehicle |
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| 23-563 |
Obaida Abdulky, et al., as Parents and Next Friends of Anthony Abdulky v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review legal-standards notice procedural-fairness |
1. Whether by failing to allow the Petitioners an opportunity to present evidence under the new legal standards created at the appellate level, the Ap… |
| 23-6072 |
James Richards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington crawford-violation criminal-procedure evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
this Court review the Betitioner's Trial Court Transcript Record on April 21, 2021, and all appeals. Counsel Arkie Byrd was so ineffective for failing… |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO?
B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E… |
| 23-6056 |
Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Dakota |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing |
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| 23-6058 |
Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility |
I. Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate is… |
| 23-6060 |
John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule 403) extrinsic ev… |
| 23-505 |
Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO… |
| 23-5983 |
Eric Spencer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 23-5966 |
Jonathan Ericksen v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 standard-of-review |
At the close of the government's evidence at his jury trial for Attempted Enticement of a Minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), Petitioner Erick… |
| 23-5969 |
Semaan Makdissi v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury … |
| 23-5955 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment government-attorney government-misconduct illegal-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
(1) Can an attorney for the government go outside the jurisdictional process and ask a friend to dearch an office without a warrant and not violate th… |
| 23-463 |
Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy |
In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this court held that laws that "defin[e] regulated speech by particular subject matter" are "obvious[ly]" content-based an… |
| 23-5915 |
Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5927 |
Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony |
1. Does display of a defendant's body part (a foot) to the jury constitute testimony that subjects the defendant to cross-examination?
2. In a multi-… |
| 23-5894 |
Myron Lee Brandon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors |
I. The District Court violated the Defendant's Fifth and
Sixth Amendment rights by excluding evidence and Arg
ument under Fed. R. Evid . 412, specific… |
| 23-5863 |
Katherine L. Woitaszewski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment standing |
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| 23-417 |
Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment |
1. Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non… |
| 23-406 |
Taylor J. Matson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-agent criminal-procedure evidence evidence-summary jury-inference jury-instructions lay-opinion lay-witness-testimony legal-interpretation plain-language-interpretation summary-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether case agents may offer lay opinions summarizing evidence, interpreting plain language, and drawing inferences from evidence that only a jury ma… |
| 23-5789 |
Jean Max Darbouze v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure csaas-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony free-speech habeas-corpus translation-accuracy witness-credibility |
1. During trial, it was elicited on cross-examination, that the victim told the
investigator she never had sexual contact with Petitioner, and that h… |
| 23-5718 |
Adam Neftali Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing |
1. Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant?
2.… |
| 23-5719 |
Jerrell West v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence legal-jurisdiction prejudicial probative statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5656 |
Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent |
1. Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke's post-indictment statements and actions that were i… |
| 23-311 |
Keith Michael Connole v. David W. Garbarino, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
arizona-revised-statutes codis-database criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-access reliability-of-conviction reliability-of-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial court must interpret Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13, Section 4240, to maximize a defendant's due process rights to access evidence … |
| 23-5635 |
William Raymond Carter v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5620 |
Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regard… |
| 23-5596 |
Edward James Steiner v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering |
Was there prosecutorial misconduct?
Was tape of evidence?
Is this in state jail?
Will this case and others bring like the first U.S. Citizens?
Wil… |
| 23-5557 |
Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. |
Delaware |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5524 |
Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review |
A government witness who testifies as both an investigative fact witness and as an expert witness, pursuant to Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Eviden… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in… |
| 23-5491 |
Saundra S. Brooke v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the lower abused her discretion when she withheld evidence in the record from the fourth circuit and disregarded a discharged bankruptcy in th… |
| 23-5495 |
SirMichael Dyess v. California |
California |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5505 |
Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification |
Whether The Supreme Court Of Virginia Erred In Refusing To Reverse Petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's Convictions Because The Trial Court Violated The … |
| 23-5489 |
Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test |
1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts
decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United
St… |
| 23-5458 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-176 |
Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company |
Texas |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowin… |
| 23-5422 |
Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure |
Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure?
Did the Schenectady Coun… |
| 23-5427 |
Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause credibility credibility-evidence criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-usage drug-use evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether Long Pumpkiw's right to confrontation was denied when the district court ruled that he could not cross-examine two important eye-witnesses "in… |
| 23-5413 |
Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse |
1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5412 |
Keith Allen Shrum v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process electronic-evidence evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-specificity warrantless-search |
1. Whether the exigent circumstances exception saves a warrantless seizure
of a defendant's phone when law enforcement could have obtained a warrant a… |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand. |
| 23-5399 |
Milton Melvin Rodgers v. California |
California |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue legal-writ search-and-seizure statutory-provisions |
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| 23-5334 |
Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. The Court has held that the due process clause requires the government to prove each element of a criminal offense beyond a reasonable doubt. In re… |
| 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 IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 23-5323 |
Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness |
Petitioner ask this court for review matters of law that were present at Appellate Court level but not replied.
Because petitioner incarcerated and u… |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5220 |
Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5178 |
Bobby Dean Robey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing |
I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE?
II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR… |
| 23-5163 |
Michael Joseph Formica v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence impeachment judicial-discretion standing |
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| 23-5083 |
James Calfee v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-powers judicial-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5064 |
Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5052 |
Richie A. Stokes, Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion jury-tampering legal-standards prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5043 |
Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness |
Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the juiy?
Was Ceaser's trial rende… |
| 23-14 |
Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b |
In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi… |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding
there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's
verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 23-5010 |
Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5013 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
brady brady-violation civil-rule-60b due-process evidence evidence-suppression indigent-defendant new-trial new-trial-motion possession suppression |
This case poses a pressing issue of national importance. Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper and unduly burdensome standar… |
| 22-7867 |
Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7812 |
Miguel A. Cisneros v. Trent Allen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure jury-instructions legal-standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7774 |
Duane E. Armstrong v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence trial-procedure |
Before the Supreme Court review during trial in front of a jury. Does the
court 's need a second analyst to testifies, to the first analyst opinion co… |
| 22-7747 |
Samuel Wilson, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness |
Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or … |
| 22-7731 |
Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof |
In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w… |
| 22-7710 |
Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness |
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| 22-7711 |
William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF THE APPELLANT'S … |
| 22-7687 |
James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1141 |
Gary Pisner v. Marla Rubinstein, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure cross-jurisdictional-preclusion defamation defamation-privilege documentary-evidence evidence forum-non-conveniens judicial-notice litigation-privilege procedural-requirements |
1. Fed. R. Evid. Rule 201 and caselaw gives the parties the ability to enter
documentary evidence through judicial notice; under what conditions can a… |
| 22-7615 |
Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts |
After trying for many years, Willie Manning was finally given access to biological evidence, including hairs that were introduced at trial and used ag… |
| 22-7610 |
Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment |
Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain… |
| 22-7595 |
Arnoldo Navarette v. Vincent Horton, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial |
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| 22-1109 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal |
Has Irving Rounds, Jr. (hereinafter "Petitioner") been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the… |
| 22-7539 |
Stacy Gallman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden… |
| 22-7542 |
Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony in evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo… |
| 22-7534 |
Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7504 |
Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor |
California |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order |
Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord… |
| 22-1075 |
James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony |
1. Whether The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that Hinkle's federal … |
| 22-7460 |
Carlos Darnell Dixon v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence firearm-possession jury-inference jury-trial second-amendment |
The issue presented in this application has never been addressed by this Court; to wit, to what extent may the State violate a citizen's right to bear… |
| 22-7450 |
Derry Sykes v. New York City Housing Authority |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination judicial-discretion mold mold-remediation standing |
1. Whether the district court abused its discretion and made a clear error of law in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure state a claim under… |
| 22-7437 |
Kevin Darrell Miller v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
contemporaneous-conduct criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-use evidence evidence-admissibility intent-standard mens-rea possession |
Whether, in a drug distribution trial, evidence of a defendant's drug use and simple possession is admissible to prove mens rea if the use and possess… |
| 22-7400 |
Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu… |
| 22-7369 |
Sydney Tyrone Mays v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prior-statement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-integrity witness |
Does a witness stating that he does not remember 2his two thirds of nis prror staterrent without ever establishing Proper foundatien to specfic subjec… |
| 22-7350 |
Emanuel Higuera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure witness-qualification |
Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-7343 |
William Levi Oliver v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance trauma-narrative videoconference-testimony witness |
1 (a) Whether it is a violation of the Confrontation Clause to dispense with physical/ face-to-face confrontation and permit out-of-state testimony vi… |
| 22-7335 |
Enrique Holguin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-hearing preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure |
Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-7317 |
Rosa V. v. Ali H. |
California |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment |
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| 22-7281 |
Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification |
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| 22-7249 |
Daryl Lee Godette Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard possession reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Godette possessed the heroin found in the apartment. |
| 22-7213 |
Brian Evan Roth v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
1. Did thetrial Court Err in allowing
oncharged erimes
not containod in the in farmatuen, to he introduced and
sfotlighted as testimany? As well as be… |
| 22-966 |
Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video |
I. Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurio… |
| 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 |
I.
Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ocean-Avent possessed a firearm.
II.
right to a fair trial. |
| 22-7090 |
Frank Gallardo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence speedy-trial |
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| 22-7051 |
William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law |
Oklahoma has jury sentencing in all felony cases, and those proceedings may be bifurcated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (the "OCCA") has the… |
| 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 GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICENT EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YORK/
I. OF ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR
A. WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICIENT EVIDENC… |
| 22-6977 |
Sharif Talib v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence sentencing |
Did the lower court violate Appellant Constitutional Rights for never reviewing the conviction prohibition he received because the operation lied on s… |
| 22-839 |
Daniel Greer v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions propensity propensity-evidence sex-crimes sexual-misconduct |
Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury at a sex crimes trial is instructed that evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct "is admissible and may… |
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE?
II. DID THE TRIAL CO… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-6884 |
Pradheep Chhalliyil v. Foodchain ID Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination evidence evidence-gathering national-origin-discrimination prima-facie-case termination title-vii |
1: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l) prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of e… |
| 22-6861 |
Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error |
DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO?
WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6822 |
Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim? |
| 22-6810 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence |
1) Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him? |
| 22-6809 |
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) |
Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues? |
| 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 |
I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C… |
| 22-763 |
Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence cross-examination due-process evidence fraud-on-the-court judicial-procedure rule-of-law sanctions |
Whether the Sixth Circuit panel's decision to affirm the District Court decision that was based on the "application of the wrong legal test" constitut… |
| 22-6748 |
John Paul Holland v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conviction due-process evidence federal-constitution liberty |
Question not identified. |
| 22-754 |
In Re Christy Poon-Atkins |
|
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure clerical-errors court-procedure document-alteration due-process evidence false-documents judicial-review legal-relief mandamus mishandled-evidence writ-of-mandamus |
Should evidence of clerical errors, the Defendants' submission of false and altered documents, and mishandled evidence result in the issuance of a Wri… |
| 22-6729 |
Darlene Bennett v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence judicial-process standing |
The lower Courts have not explained their reasoning of written law, or statue why the Plaintiff was not allowed to submit evidence. I present this sam… |
| 22-6733 |
In Re John B. Myles |
|
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arrest-warrant due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6681 |
Shane Swindall Chambers v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea modus-operandi other-acts-evidence trial-court |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS LIBERTY WITHOUT FIRST THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHERE A FALSE MODUS OPERANDI REQUIRED TO ADMIT OTHER ACTS EVIDENCE… |
| 22-6668 |
Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely… |
| 22-702 |
Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued |
Minnesota |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
|
child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony |
Without a full presentation of the facts, did the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse had not occurred deny due process to both … |
| 22-6563 |
Jaquain Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation |
1. Shortly after the murder of Jelvon Helton, which petitioner was convicted of, witness Tierra Lewis went to the police, circled codefendant Esau Fer… |
| 22-6526 |
Anton Michael Kubica v. California |
California |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-dismissal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial |
WAS THE APPELLANT DENIED HIS FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, BECAUSE OF UNJUSTIFIED, PREJUDICIAL PROSECUTORIAL DELAY IN FILING … |
| 22-6513 |
Jeremy Dale Bartram v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-discretion rule-404(b) uncharged-misconduct |
Does the prosecution's use of 'uncharged misconduct' under Rule 404(b) of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence strip a criminal defendant of the presum… |
| 22-6470 |
Mary Ann Ellis v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence standing witness |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6442 |
Brennan Thomas Baker v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cell-phone-recording criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-abuse-of-discretion fourth-amendment legal-admissibility surveillance surveillance-footage witness-testimony |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT ADMITTED THE STATE'S CELL PHONE RECORDING OF SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE THAT CAPTURED THE ALTERCATION BE… |
| 22-6435 |
Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
1.)
Is a defendant deprived of his right to
Confrontation and
due Process within
the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth
Amendments Whea the District… |
| 22-6401 |
William Clyde Culberson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause crawford-vs-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law medical-records sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
IS MEDICAL RECORDS CONSIDERED AS CONFRONTATION CLAUSE COVERED UNDER CRAWFORD VS. WASHINGTONA. |
| 22-581 |
Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession |
1. Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c), like Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3)(B), allows admission of an out-of-court statement against penal intere… |
| 22-6356 |
Tyler Nees v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6320 |
Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Maryland |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition |
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| 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 … |
| 22-6311 |
Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence adduced at trial to convict
Petitioner of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt under this Court's holding
… |
| 22-6238 |
David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence |
I. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Co… |
| 22-6232 |
Trevor Jim Bishop v. California |
California |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver |
Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility
of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proce… |
| 22-6175 |
Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention |
Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code $ 1983 . after exhausting all know… |
| 22-488 |
Darrell Hemphill v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo… |
| 22-6135 |
Monzell Harding v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes |
Was the district court required by Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted f… |
| 22-6079 |
Teshome Sok Sameru v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence self-incrimination witness |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6058 |
Justin David Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver |
1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the… |
| 22-6026 |
Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search |
• Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer
files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless… |
| 22-5997 |
Tarence Kirkland v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence |
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| 22-5999 |
Enrique M. Flores-Vazquez v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appeals-process due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-mandate judicial-review veterans-affairs |
Under what authority, rule or law? The Board of Department of Veterans Affairs can over rule and disregard 2 Mandates, after Judge Lance on 7/15/2012 … |
| 22-5991 |
Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 |
1. When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4241, and the defendant is then sent to a BOP facili… |
| 22-5980 |
Arius Hopkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness |
Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp… |
| 22-5967 |
Hunter Halver Brown v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
covid-19 covid-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process evidence interstate-agreement-on-detainers restitution speedy-trial trial-timeline |
I- Whether Hunter Brown's Covington, County, Al. Charges in CASE NO. :CC-20-303. should've been dismissed pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Deta… |
| 22-399 |
Adam Dean Brown v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
accident-reconstruction burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct traffic-accident |
Did Petitioner satisfy the burden for the issuance of a certificate of appealability on his ineffective assistance of counsel claims where his trial a… |
| 22-5858 |
Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause |
Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the … |
| 22-5867 |
Monica McCarrick v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-degree-murder meaningful-defense mental-health paranoid-delusions premeditation trial-court-evidence |
1. Does an objectively unreasonable violation of the Constitutional right to present a meaningful defense occur when a trial court prevents a defendan… |
| 22-5840 |
Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent |
Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights do to trial court err by:
A… |
| 22-5795 |
Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5779 |
James Michael Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l… |
| 22-5759 |
Andrew Robertson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence indictment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5733 |
Robert Brown, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment |
The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a… |
| 22-5605 |
Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence pre-arrest-delay speedy-trial |
WHETHER A (15) FIFTEEN YEAR PREARREST DELAY WHERE THE PROSECUTOR COULD NOT GIVE A SUFFICEINT REASON FOR THE DELAY TO JUSTIFY THE PREJUDICE TO THE PETI… |
| 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 |
I. 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.
… |
| 22-5590 |
Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-scrutiny prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offenses |
Is it INEFFECTINE ASSISTENCE OF COUNSEL WHERE : THEREBY PROUING NOT ALLOWE "TAMPERED EVIDENCE" WERE AT TRIAL DUE TO THE JUOGE "CHOOSINE 11 THIS WAS ON… |
| 22-239 |
Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition |
When a court of appeals authorizes adjudication of a claim in a second or successive habeas petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), is the distr… |
| 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 First Circuit correctly determined that the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully for t… |
| 22-196 |
Adam Samia, aka Sal, aka Adam Samic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
codefendant-confession confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence out-of-court-statement redaction sixth-amendment |
Whether admitting a codefendant's redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on the surrounding context violates t… |
| 22-5492 |
William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony |
(1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?… |
| 22-5453 |
Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure |
1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t… |
| 22-168 |
Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule |
Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou… |
| 22-5374 |
In Re Darris Newsome |
|
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-admission incarceration incarceration-evidence judicial-discretion transfer-history |
Did refusal to allow Darris Antory Newsome certified and authenticated copy of a transfer history document severely hinder his ability to present his … |
| 22-5354 |
Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion |
The facts, issues, and eudeace relates to Lace A Juvenile Lifec*s DecertiFitarion(Jrunstec) deescrou ace celévaatto Said Juvenile Likees re sentencing… |
| 22-5350 |
Randolph J. Norwood v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fatal-variance trial-integrity victim-identification witness-testimony |
Can a State charge a defendant with committing a crime against a specific individual and at trial present a completely different individual as the all… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 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 |
1) Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1) require a jury to find that the natural and probable effect of… |
| 22-5275 |
Russell M. Boles v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue jury-instructions legal-procedure negligence standard-of-review statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
1) How might a court's attention be draun to merits without providing them escape routes?
2) Is construc tive denial oleounsel" allouable by imposing… |
| 22-5247 |
Luckens Petit v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-hearing confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence florida-arthur-bond-hearing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE FLORIDA ARTHURVBOND HEARING SATISFIES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S CONFRONTATION CLAUSE REQUIREMENT AS EXPLAINED IN CRAWFORD V. WASHINGTON, 5… |
| 22-5198 |
Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari |
1) Why did no evidence appear in the here written states of Virginia search?
2) Why did no evidence 'presented,' as proof of ever-violation of the cl… |
| 22-5202 |
In Re Tavon Dameon Davis |
|
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol… |
| 22-5190 |
Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard |
1. Should certiorari be granted where the district court itself called
this case a "close" situation when an unqualified Special Agent with the
Bureau… |
| 22-5154 |
Myron Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error |
As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the ad… |
| 22-5110 |
Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
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Question Two? Hes the Supreme Cour) overturned Jackson —v. Vitginim 443 U.§ O7 G) 1 Ed ad… |
| 22-5112 |
Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one … |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-32 |
John Hart v. County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence voiceprint-analysis |
Where a criminal defendant has compelling evidence of actual innocence in the form of exculpatory expert voiceprint analysis, does that defendant rece… |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder?
Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al… |
| 21-8216 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's abuse of its discretion in admitting evidence of weapons found in Mr. Dykes' residence… |
| 21-1586 |
Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
I. Did the Fifth Circuit, in accepting the District Court's findings of fact, probable cause of the fall and legal authority, violate the basic princi… |
| 21-8212 |
Anthony N. Ott v. New York |
New York |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-procedure door-opening double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-york-law vindictive-sentencing vindictiveness |
I. Whether the New York Courts erred when they failed to adhere to Hemphill v. New York and its progeny regarding the proper standard for door-opening… |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
1. Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a rig… |
| 21-8096 |
Barbara Frantz v. Patrick C. Frantz |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
beneficiary-dispute civil-procedure contingent-beneficiary criminal-appeal evidence evidence-standard life-insurance murder-allegation summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8041 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-interpretation procedural-protections standing state-law vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether an unaddressed constitutional claim not affirmatively contradicted by the record deserves relief, and if so, should review under Due proces… |
| 21-7986 |
Stephen Gosch v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court |
1. Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment where the prosecution failed to … |
| 21-7997 |
Benjamin Green Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure evidence judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion motion-in-limine motion-to-suppress plain-error prior-conviction |
(1) Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in granting the Government's motion in limine to admit into evidence, Petitioner's prior State co… |
| 21-1482 |
Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams 's Motion to Supress evidence related… |
| 21-7927 |
Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence |
X stipulated into a polygraph polygraph results S'housed Obv/ouS error and did not Comp /y Jurth Ohio e V ' dence Rule fOSL (c) . But th&re ouas no Ob… |
| 21-1452 |
Matthew David Cwik v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial military-testimony military-uniform victim-testimony witness-appearance |
Were Petitioner's due process and fair trial rights violated when the victim was allowed to testify in a military uniform? |
| 21-1456 |
Christy Poon-Atkins v. Sammy M. Sappington, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process evidence evidence-omission jury-trial procedural-rules standing |
1. Should the Defendants' documented admissions to speeding, as direct evidence, have not been reviewed by a jury, per Constitution Amendment VII, and… |
| 21-7869 |
Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment |
1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United… |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-7765 |
Rafael Lora v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence judicial-review standing |
On Direct Appeal, the Appeals Court denied, neglected, avoided, and failed to document the appellants submitted evidence (appendix) and did the same f… |
| 21-7731 |
Alonzo Bell v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial.
Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a… |
| 21-7698 |
Daniel Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause correctional-officer evidence hearsay prison sixth-amendment |
1) Was the Sixth Amendment guaranty of the right of confrontation denied by the trial introduction of a handwritten statement of a state prison correc… |
| 21-7687 |
Earl Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio |
Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove … |
| 21-7683 |
Nelson Conto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF APPELLAN… |
| 21-7672 |
Jermaine E. Spence v. Reemon Bishara, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal dismissal due-process evidence in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing |
Were the causes of action described in the appellant's trial court principal brief of l:20-cv-0230 against 25 defendants substantiated by the evidence… |
| 21-7641 |
Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant |
1) Did the State of Texas and theU.S. District Court improperly
hold that the trial court properly admitted into evidence a personal
writing by the … |
| 21-7610 |
Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony |
1. Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause when the me… |
| 21-7613 |
James Edward Williams v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity |
The state appellate court's decision was wrong
Can the jury be instructed to consider
Criminal 3.14 IPI instructions Saying
that the jury can consider… |
| 21-7617 |
Stevie Wyre v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence federal-rights habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence perjury-testimony |
1) Whether Wype is ewttlet Yo Relief 02 av Eviherhiney heain
Whene Whe Lded Slates Coue of Appeals. SCaeut avd Whe
VUrled Ques Dishdiel Couet Loe Whe … |
| 21-7595 |
O. C. v. V. C. |
Ohio |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights |
1. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution states that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or… |
| 21-7589 |
Mark A. Brown v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Court of Appeals finding that the state Courts conviction was based on a reasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence pr… |
| 21-7468 |
Nahid Kadir Moshrefi v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights evidence fifth-amendment non-custodial police-questioning pre-arrest self-incrimination |
Whether the Fifth Amendment protects an individual who invokes her privilege against self-incrimination during pre-arrest, non-custodial questioning b… |
| 21-7413 |
Brian Folks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence issue-preservation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to recognize error and provide clarity about the prejudice that stems from a prosecutor's repeated requests… |
| 21-7356 |
Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession.
2. Whether the jury i… |
| 21-1227 |
MRI Associates of Tampa, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Florida |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-standard florida-supreme-court stipulation-of-facts summary-judgment unpreserved-issue waived-issue waiver-doctrine |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's constitutionally guaranteed due process rights by reversing the trial court's summary judgment … |
| 21-7309 |
Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability |
Whether district courts, serving as Daubert/Kumho Tire gatekeepers, have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as ex… |
| 21-7312 |
Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations |
1. Whether the trial court erred be admitting, without'expert
medical testimony, evidence of the complainant's stomachaches
and bladder pain puporti… |
| 21-7321 |
Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review |
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CVc^r^e. «
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| 21-7275 |
David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-presentation judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-error separation-of-powers state-court-system |
a. WHERE A DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAILS TO EXERCISE DISCRETION IN THE DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE, CAN CONTINUED AND MOUNTING EVIDENCE BE PRESENTED TO THE DI… |
| 21-7280 |
Sammie Carroll v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) Did the Gourt of Special Appeals of Maryland err,in ruling that the evidence
adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction?
2) Did the … |
| 21-7247 |
Kevin Herriott v. Lieutenant Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-courts federal-rules legal-mail mail-room standing statutory-provisions |
1)WHETHER THE
CLAIMANT IS ENTITLED TO
OFFER EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT HIS CLAIMS? |
| 21-7248 |
John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson |
Arizona |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure |
A. Does a Judas Pre DETER MATION ON THE RECORD Pao TO REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE ca AT TRA Milaate A CONSTITUTIONAL BAGH TO TED. DUE PROCESS
2 WHEN. AL P… |
| 21-7253 |
Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration |
First Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7241 |
Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel |
Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine… |
| 21-7242 |
Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Did ths Court of Appeals err when it held that the trial court didnot commit error in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendme… |
| 21-1186 |
Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence immigration judicial-review marriage-fraud ninth-circuit unreliable-statements |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made duri… |
| 21-7229 |
Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1) Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an
unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme
Cour… |
| 21-1131 |
Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony |
The question before this Court is whether, in a civil case involving the killing of a young Black man, whose lawful gun was found twenty feet from his… |
| 21-7132 |
Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion |
When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude a… |
| 21-1129 |
Wen-Ting Zheng-Smith v. Nassau Health Care Corporation, dba NUHealth System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-reviews attorney attorney-conduct civil-procedure court-discretion evidence evidence-submission government-findings judicial-procedure legal-evidence witness-statements witness-testimony |
The District Judge in this case directed the plaintiffs attorney to submit evidence through the defense's attorney. Can that evidence be presented by … |
| 21-7122 |
Thomas Warner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility |
Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te… |
| 21-7067 |
Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance |
1. Shola the Inoldina of Uritted States Ve Elbechnact SYe le. VL (2005), " thak im his Case Coovermment Vieo\eeready bo Yespond, and Yor Contest Whe m… |
| 21-7059 |
Timothy George Muller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining substance venue |
MR. MULLED- EaJT/TIE D To uoiTA/TIRA lS
DlEA AMD Tai/E /J& CoaJTclVoa} fa/Z DEA iuEAY oE
6orimoU.tX> SuBSfAAJCE tAOZiti^DEATbJ VACATED,
l$EC/kJSE '… |
| 21-6998 |
Robert Lars Pape v. California |
California |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability |
1. Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the cour… |
| 21-7003 |
Latique Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility admissibility-standard ballistics ballistics-testimony evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence firearm forensic-science scientific-reliability |
Whether testimony by ballistics toolmark experts that a particular firearm fired recovered bullets or casings is presently so flawed as to be inadmiss… |
| 21-6980 |
Michael R. Fowler v. Robert Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay |
unconFrontedstatements
Whather a victims
to police wre admissible at trial onthe grounds
of unavailability by forfeiture where no affirmcaused +he wi… |
| 21-6982 |
Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment |
Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment.
Whether a conflict of interest is acceptable when a defend… |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-1032 |
Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
1) Whether additional evidence of claims occurring
while a judgment is pending and immediately af
ter case closure merit recall of a mandate.
2) Whe… |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. |
| 21-6875 |
Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court |
SECURIYOF PERSON, FROM, SEVER IINESS, MENTANY. PHYSICAHY, DEATH. DUE
PROCESS.AND.PUNISHMENT.
PERTICIPATING IN MIS OWN DEFFENCSE, DID VIOIATE THE SIXTH… |
| 21-6770 |
Dave Elysee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defense due-process evidence legal-procedure police-investigation presumption-of-innocence suspect-identification trial-defense |
Whether a criminal defendant may mount a defense at trial based on an inadequate police investigation into another suspect. |
| 21-940 |
Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy |
Kentucky |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution.
2. Whether the F… |
| 21-909 |
Khai Quang Bui v. Hernan Ruiz Cabaellero |
Virginia |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment adverse-decision amendment-fourteen civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-decision procedural-due-process |
The U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV Section 1 Procedural Due Process Civil contradict with the process, procedure, evidences and decision, of a court … |
| 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 where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6653 |
Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment |
Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause when the regularly con… |
| 21-6620 |
Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
1). While incarcerated at the county jail between October 2008
and February 04, 2010, state witnesses Jeneya Richardson and
Kimberly Meadows wrote the… |
| 21-6587 |
Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit |
I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE… |
| 21-6536 |
In Re Michael Robert Everett |
|
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination |
(1) Were Counsel was Ineffective when Failed to Present to the Court During Suppression Hearing than the Petitioner Teks Mamanba Nataeig Watngr when I… |
| 21-6499 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion |
Where the trial court erred by precluding the Use of a CivifSettlement Agreement between Henry Pratt and Nationwide which was admissible to show Natio… |
| 21-821 |
Mary J. Farrier v. George Phillip Leicht, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing |
Why did the Chapter 7 Judge aid the trustee and ignored my husband Dower Rights and put the Deed in the trustee name So; the trustee could receive the… |
| 21-6481 |
General Grant Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standing third-party-perpetrator wisconsin-law |
1. Whether the limitations that Wisconsin places on a criminal defendant seeking to introduce third-party-perpetrator evidence are consistent with the… |
| 21-6487 |
Lisa Marie Cano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeal court-of-appeals evidence historical-facts inevitable-discovery investigating-officer investigation verification |
Whether a court of appeal's inference regarding the future course of an investigation, unsupported by testimony from the investigating officer or by e… |
| 21-6463 |
William Martin Cresham v. California |
California |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence |
This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |
| 21-6340 |
Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment |
1. The trial court refused to allow Petitioner to call a material
witness that could significantly aid in his defense -and complied
with the Rules O… |
| 21-6275 |
David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action |
1. Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instructi… |
| 21-6305 |
Eric Volk v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
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| 21-6264 |
Marion Katrell Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b rule-702 trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY ALLOWED FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) & 702 IN PETITIONERS TRIAL |
| 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 |
1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence
to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6211 |
Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness |
Whether, in a case in which the government was required to prove that the defendant was not working from a good faith misunderstanding of the law, the… |
| 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 THIS… |
| 21-6098 |
Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment |
Petitioner Hector Enamorado was convicte d on a single count of conspiracy to
violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), … |
| 21-6069 |
Artavius Horne v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review supervisory-power third-circuit |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departur… |
| 21-580 |
Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading |
1. The Grand Jury Clause of the United States Constitution states that "[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime… |
| 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 |
This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-5968 |
Timothy Stemen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination |
Did law enforcement violate the petitioners due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings.
Did law enforcement violate the pet… |
| 21-5963 |
Norris Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination |
1. When a defendant in an investigation says "No" is it a 5th amendment violation. When does the investigation stop?
2. When new evidence is made ava… |
| 21-5908 |
Miguel Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process evidence public-trial right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5909 |
Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation |
1. Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney m… |
| 21-5851 |
Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California |
California |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness |
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| 21-5882 |
Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services |
New York |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error |
1. Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence
standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two … |
| 21-5830 |
Bradley David Johnson v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5825 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui… |
| 21-5798 |
Willie Israel Navarette v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence evidence-law impeachment suppression-hearing trial-testimony |
1. Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial. |
| 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… |
| 21-460 |
April Diane Myres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
| 21-5771 |
Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
1. Whether officers had the right to be at Appellant house do to the fact the search warrant for his house was in his Alleged Codefendant's name Dougl… |
| 21-5720 |
Mark Eldon Wilson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant criminal-complaint evidence federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-29 judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights united-states-v-marion |
1. Whether a criminal complaint, at least when paired with an arrest warrant, triggers a defendant's Sixth Amendment speedy trial rights, which attach… |
| 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 |
PROPOSITION ONE: Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 in that there was insufficient evidence that the heroin … |
| 21-5629 |
Alba Duque v. Chabad at the Civic Center, Inc. |
Florida |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
contract contract-validity enforceability evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion parties quit-claim-deed real-estate real-estate-contract specific-performance |
(1) *Can a Real Estate Contract be legally valid and enforceable if not all the required parties signed it?
(2) *When a Quit Claim Deed became legall… |
| 21-5607 |
Terry R. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy autopsy-requirement black-lung-disease cause-of-death civil-rights compensation-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-evidence |
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| 21-5575 |
Frederick Arayatanon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence |
Do-es —t-he—admirs's!on of "jail telephone calls by the District
Court during defendant's trial undermine defendant's presumption
of innocence? |
| 21-346 |
Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration |
Maryland |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses |
Did the courts follow the Procedural Due process subject to the 14th (i)
Amendment due process protection?
Did the courts follow the Civil Due Proces… |
| 21-5559 |
Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea |
Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-303 |
Vignaraj Munsami Pillay v. Public Storage Inc. |
Florida |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process evidence exculpatory-clause motion-to-dismiss negligence property-damage standing tenant-rights |
(i) - Can a motion to dismiss a complaint using citations out of context from distinguishable
cases,polished and crafted , and completely unrelated t… |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5424 |
Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg… |
| 21-5434 |
Demontrae Wilson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence |
Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission… |
| 21-227 |
Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar |
North Carolina |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing |
I. Whether the N.C. Court of Appeals erred in holding that Springs' posting of a deposition video --long after the proceedings were concluded -- in or… |
| 21-5380 |
Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery |
Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden… |
| 21-5398 |
Scott Estes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad… |
| 21-5281 |
Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court |
Did Court Supreme $$\qrt3}$ by recalculating not expenses s0t Court Did Supreme $\rt3}$ La allowing exhibits not to be ? include Yes Did the Supreme C… |
| 21-5255 |
Nathaniel B. Appleby-El v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-admission right-to-counsel witness-testimony |
1. Whether such extensive reliance on transcripts, denied Mr. Appleby-El's federal right of confrontation, because doing so effectively prevented him … |
| 21-5250 |
Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller |
Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ… |
| 21-5242 |
Joshua Sadat Washington v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence search-and-seizure suppression-hearing |
Question not identified. |
| 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 where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5191 |
Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation |
1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation.
2. Whether an emp… |
| 21-5148 |
Gregory Dew v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar |
IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE COURTS FAIL TO REVIEW ALL RELEVANT EVIDENCE IN THE OVERALL, NEWLY SUPPLEMENTED RECORD FOR AN ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5140 |
Gabriel Elijah Kane Arkinson, aka Daniel Elijahkane Arkinson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-testimony acquittal-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence motion-for-acquittal ninth-circuit-review rule-29-motion witness-credibility witness-identification |
In response to Petitioner's third and final motion for acquittal under Rule 29(c) Fed. R. Crim. P. the district court ruled that standing alone the go… |
| 21-63 |
Terrance Miles v. Belinda Sanchez, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidence evidence-availability government-delay government-responsibility pre-trial-imprisonment prejudice rehabilitation sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-postponement |
1. Where a defendant's trial is postponed because certain evidence is unavailable, does the government's responsibility for delays in obtaining that e… |
| 21-40 |
Lumbsden A. Sangster v. Anthony Valencia |
California |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights defamation evidence evidence-tampering fair-report-privilege free-speech police-communication press-communication section-47 |
(1) Whether the fair report privilege apply to a private communication between a police officer and a member of the press is supported in a defamation… |
| 21-5083 |
Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure |
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| 21-5063 |
Sammy Cano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her … |
| 21-5042 |
John Shields v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine as justificatio n for refusing to review an insufficiency of the evide… |
| 21-5032 |
Paris Poe v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison |
Whether this Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower cou… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5009 |
Eddie Tarver v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence |
1. Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from … |
| 20-8443 |
Jacobie A. Green v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-statement due-process evidence jury-charge jury-instructions motion-to-quash photographic-evidence right-to-counsel state-created-impediment trial-court-discretion |
1. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court error in denying review after a. State-crested impediment occurred?
2. Whether ihe trial court erred in admittmg d… |
| 20-8435 |
Vladimir Eugene v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose |
I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied?
2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8428 |
Joseph George v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment |
Does false evidence and expert witness perjured testimony the alleged victim suffered a fracture of the zygomatic buttress qualify for the Schlup doct… |
| 20-8392 |
Dmitry Pronin v. Troy Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mistake new-trial |
(1) Did such "translator" malfunction and or Rule 608 Fed.R.Civ.P. prohibit such to allow "mistranslation"?
(2) Inadvertent U (Under Rule 608 Fed.R.C… |
| 20-8381 |
Christian Diaz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation counsel-obligations due-process evidence trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8363 |
Outhdorm Ros v. California |
California |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights prosecutorial-argument self-incrimination |
1. In a criminal prosecution, can a suspect's silence after he is arrested, but before he is questioned or read his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 3… |
| 20-1766 |
In Re John H. Todd |
|
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant |
Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants that exist between ORS 133.545(5) which requires a fully trained police officer and ORS 167.345 … |
| 20-8307 |
Lamar McKnight v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-enhancement gang-expert jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences right-to-confront testimonial-hearsay |
I. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the
Trial Court's Admission of the Gang Expert's Testimonial Hearsay Deprived McKnight of His Right to … |
| 20-8314 |
Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability child-psychology constitutional-rights evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred
in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of
the District Co… |
| 20-8288 |
Anthony L. Ingram v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal |
1. Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the
government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of … |
| 20-1707 |
Katherine Jacobs v. Johnson Storage & Moving Co. Holdings, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-errors civil-procedure due-process evidence flsa-violations fraud material-facts overtime-approval perjury summary-judgment |
(1) Whether the district court did not uphold F.R.C.P. Rule 56, Rule 60(b) and the Supreme Court's summary judgment standards when weighing and dismis… |
| 20-8270 |
Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment |
1. Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having k… |
| 20-8228 |
John Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery?
2. Did the district court err in denying sup… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al… |
| 20-1663 |
Matthew D. Norwood v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony |
Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e… |
| 20-1646 |
Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure |
1. Does the intentional use of the *67 feature to obfuscate one's phone number create a
justifiable, reasonable, or a legitimate expectation of privac… |
| 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) |
Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-8116 |
Carlos Bayon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion |
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity… |
| 20-8081 |
Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct |
Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed "intrinsic evidence" and admitted without the admis… |
| 20-8087 |
William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment |
A) Is petitioner entitled to a constitutional review and his court on his presented claims at the appeal level regarding his Effective Assistance of C… |
| 20-1586 |
Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
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Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7978 |
Todd Alan Winkler v. California |
California |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence |
Did the California Court of Appeal err when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petit… |
| 20-7953 |
Alena Aleykina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent due-process evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment legal-separation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
2. Was it fair to affirm 18 U.S.C. 1519 charge where the integrity of juridical process was harmed by the prosecutor who:
a. Submitted doctored indict… |
| 20-7949 |
Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition, err in holding that evidence admitted at trial essentially established wha… |
| 20-7886 |
Shirl A. Stephen v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment |
D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a… |
| 20-7845 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states |
1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the… |
| 20-1461 |
Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force |
1. Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely… |
| 20-1451 |
Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review standing |
I. Whether The U.S. District Court Swolge Commit Ay Ercoe IN Decision adopting the U.S. Magistrate Sudees ocdec signed on June i, HORO Petitioner Subo… |
| 20-1460 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe |
I.
WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT TO
JUSTIFY AFFIRMANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY
CONVICTIONS ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE PROVING
SOMETHING QUIT… |
| 20-7752 |
Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Kathleen H. Sawyer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bribery civil-procedure civil-rights document-misstatement due-process evidence judicial-misconduct legal-misconduct malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct |
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| 20-7755 |
Wilbert James Veasey, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-regulations constitutional-rights due-process evidence fact-finding fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
(1) Did District court's Jury instruction impermissibly impair and redirect the jury's considerations of the evidence by adding word from Civil Regula… |
| 20-7756 |
Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation |
Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Tademy's motion to dismiss or other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in violation … |
| 20-7765 |
Jared Andrew Martin v. California |
California |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7721 |
Shannon Demond Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent-extension-of-time due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-law |
1. Why the courts never acknowledged that I the plaintiff never consented to the Defendant request for Extension of Time?
2. Why the court did not ac… |
| 20-7691 |
Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default |
Mr. Washington (Petitioner) alleged that the CCL Court lack subject matter jurisdiction to try him. Petitioner was convicted, in large part upon Plain… |
| 20-7675 |
John G. Stroming v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics |
Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where – because of differences in the age and gender of the vi… |
| 20-7600 |
Antonio Navarro v. California |
California |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7590 |
Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-1347 |
Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a… |
| 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 |
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| 20-7549 |
Shane Arnold v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error |
Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain error review for a Rehaif v. United States, __ U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), trial erro… |
| 20-7529 |
Brian E. Moore v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal attorney-client-privilege criminal-intent evidence obstruction threats |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7422 |
Antuan V. Little v. Dan Cromwell |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards legal-reliability witness-testimony |
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| 20-7428 |
Aldo Marones v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights due-process evidence firearms sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7432 |
Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law |
Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th… |
| 20-7433 |
Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification |
I. To THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN TEAL COURT ALLOWED EVIDENCE, KNOWING THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT BROKE PROCEDURE OF ART. 3020 CP PHOTO LINEUP IDEN… |
| 20-7353 |
Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment |
I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin… |
| 20-7343 |
Justin David Williams v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony |
Why was I denied the right to cross-examine my accused attacker, thereby violating my Sixth Amendment right "the accused shall enjoy the right to be c… |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-7171 |
Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force |
(A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A
PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT
PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING
TO EVADE… |
| 20-1104 |
Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence |
Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have… |
| 20-1106 |
Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact.
2. W… |
| 20-7114 |
Aesha Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement |
I. Does the admission into evidence of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement which includes a statement implicating the defendant on trial as… |
| 20-7118 |
Terry Allen Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion … |
| 20-7124 |
George Skylar Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers |
Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to … |
| 20-7080 |
Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California |
California |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e… |
| 20-7060 |
Charles Lee Mosier, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceedings constitutional-review constitutional-standards due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW POST-CONVICTION COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEEDINGS FAIL TO PROVIDE A PRISONER T… |
| 20-7027 |
Susanne Stephanie Nikola Kynast v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights custodia-legis due-process evidence evidence-custodian motion-to-suppress nolle-prosequi property property-seizure search-and-seizure writ-of-mandamus |
Is Petitioner entitled to the return of property taken as evidence without a warrant and held in custodia legis subsequent to a motion to suppress in … |
| 20-7033 |
Otto Edward Christofferson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-offenses evidence judicial-review mandatory-minimums sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 20-1042 |
Pedro Hernandez v. New York |
New York |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina relevance-standard third-party-guilt |
This Court has long held that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to introduce evidence suggesting that someone else committed the crime c… |
| 20-6999 |
Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination |
Whether panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated my Due Process and Equal Justice process and the Equal Protection Clause under the Fo… |
| 20-6968 |
Kenton Lance Light v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence tha… |
| 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 |
I.
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-6931 |
Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6936 |
Scott Tucker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception o… |
| 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… |
| 20-6922 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-vs-maryland capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
When a capital ly sentenced defendant credibly demonstrates
that (1) state actors have cont inually exhibited bad faith
throughout the history of a … |
| 20-6845 |
Tony Tran v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence |
1. whether the circuit coust erred wher the court
ruled that Tran Could not elicit evidence to
attack the credibility of Tran's accuser. |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6760 |
Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6741 |
Peter J. McDaniels v. Kathleen Preito, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights document-request due-process evidence evidence-withholding legal-discovery spoliation state-officials summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6748 |
Edward David v. Eloy Ituarte, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence witness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6718 |
Jason J. Johnson v. California |
California |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure |
1. Under the "newly discovered evidence rule" does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as
evidence the movant could not have possibly disc… |
| 20-6628 |
Rodane Lamb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors |
1) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging Petitioner's
Stated Cumulative Errors in Argument One?
2) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging… |
| 20-6615 |
Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State trial Counsel's conflict of Interest and failure to Call a witness who would have impeached the st… |
| 20-787 |
Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing |
Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad… |
| 20-6545 |
Michael Meadows v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice |
I. Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence?
II. Does the cumulative error doctrine exist and, if so, can errors to whic… |
| 20-6494 |
Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility |
WHETHER ERRONEOUSLY ADMITTED EVIDENCE CRITICAL TO PROVING AN ELEMENT OF THE CHARGED OFFENSE CAN BE DEEMED HARMLESS BASED ON THE APPELLATE COURT'S DETE… |
| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 20-736 |
Adam Frasch v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidenti ary hearing to determi ne if a violation has occur red pursuant to Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S… |
| 20-6440 |
Benjamin K. Toscano v. Nancy Adam, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication medical-negligence medical-treatment pain-and-suffering procedural-due-process spinal-injury |
1) DOES RESPONDENT'S HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUBMIT FABRICATED DOCUMENTS?
DOES RESPONDENT'S HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMMIT PERJURY?
DOES RESPONDENT'S HAVE THE R… |
| 20-715 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records |
1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j… |
| 20-6404 |
Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6342 |
Pedro Gutierrez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict |
I. Whether a RICO "Gang" Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form.
II. Whether G… |
| 20-6343 |
Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
May a search warrant authorize an unlimited search of all of a
suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime
being inve… |
| 20-6296 |
David Lague v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent prior-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b statistical-comparison statistics unlawful-acts unlawful-intent |
Rule 404(b) prohibits evidence of a defendant's uncharged acts that "might adversely reflect on the actor's character," unless the evidence helps prov… |
| 20-637 |
Darrell Hemphill v. New York |
New York |
2020-11-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy |
A litigant's argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial is often deemed to "open the door" to the admission of responsive evidence that would … |
| 20-6257 |
Finnis Davis, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records murder-evidence |
Mr Davis was convicted with a penalcade 19.03(a)(7)(A) Aempted Lapital Murder. Mr. Davis was convicted on testimony evidence only of shooting two peop… |
| 20-6185 |
Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error |
A suspect in a burglary and homicide called a detective to cooperate. The detective asked him which vehicle he and the others had taken to commit the … |
| 20-6196 |
Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming that the District Court did not err by admitting inadmissible and highly prejudicial hearsay testimon… |
| 20-6169 |
Tykei Garner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci… |
| 20-6138 |
Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment |
DECLARATON® FOUOGEMNZNT THAT HE UIAS DEAITED DVE PROCESS ses HES CRIMTMAL etal. whtsI FAE CoORT ADIN TZTED THE pring restimouy oF al vsavartliadee ulr… |
| 20-500 |
Berlinda A. Madden v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination employment-law evidence material-fact retaliation summary-judgment union-president |
Whether a sworn affidavit of the Union President that company officials acted in retaliation for having filed an EEO complaint is a genuine issue of m… |
| 20-502 |
Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than what is required by Huddleston v. U.S., 485 U.S. 681 (1988)… |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha… |
| 20-5974 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing |
ory trial and aepeal ?
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plicity of the dharges in thefilins of tue oviminal informetidn ?
Did both Hhx Wiscousin … |
| 20-458 |
Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection |
Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision defined by Sarbanes-Oxley's 2… |
| 20-5957 |
Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5944 |
In Re Gerald M. Calmese |
|
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2
2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe… |
| 20-430 |
Justin Marques Henning v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence |
Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the… |
| 20-432 |
S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding… |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 20-5866 |
Shawn Kristi Dicken v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
I. WAS PETITIONER DENIED DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO BRADY v. MARYLAND
373 U.S. 83 VIOLATING HER V, VI AND XIV CONST. AMENDS.?
II. WAS IMPROPER EXPERT OPI… |
| 20-5870 |
Demarcus Clark v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment |
(1) Did the State's admission of the Wood/E Vestim/iy and O/M dpotE of a Su/dOaaEe Da/A adalysi l/L lieuoP+hg achial VA/A aflalysT and O/i/Aj'tpof'E .… |
| 20-5875 |
Terrence D. Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defense-right evidence firearm-prosecution firearms rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states section-924c sixth-amendment statements-against-interest |
Whether the Court violated Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), when finding Marsh had advance knowledge of the presence of a firearm in his… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 20-5784 |
Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony |
I. Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process when it excludes evidence that a complaining witnes… |
| 20-5765 |
Daniel F. Borden, Sr. v. Gary Swarthout, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was a Candy Mealy to Police Officers, when The Are Excalpatoay Matecial Evid m exon eanke, A Persens? ial, Evidence That Wo a @ Caw the People Tusk Di… |
| 20-5706 |
Mark Berg v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
I. When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party (as… |
| 20-5727 |
Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5665 |
Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements |
1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL
EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION?
(AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF
HABE… |
| 20-5623 |
Maksim Stefanyuk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct spoliation trial-rights |
When a defendant in Federal Criminal Court proceedings requests to review, prior to trial, the evidence that is in the government's possession that is… |
| 20-294 |
Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence … |
| 20-5600 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-rights relief-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
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a unSubsfc{/ykcL} Q^Jo not toctrrcAof"~Jociicroi s4oVvc.e'' ■'* jodiau
unt«?*Jt j^… |
| 20-5560 |
Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
(1) Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside in… |
| 20-248 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Has Irving Rounds, Jr. (hereinafter "Petitioner ") been
deprived of his due process rights under the 5th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United… |
| 20-5536 |
Joseph Scott McKinney v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence evidence-exclusion rape-shield rape-shield-law sixth-amendment |
The Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant's meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense. As of now, the Court has not directly address… |
| 20-221 |
Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines |
1. Can a jury be instructed that it may convict based on a criminal defendant's conscious avoidance of knowledge of a necessary fact, without needing … |
| 20-200 |
Morgan McCoy v. Michael Bullock, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process evidence landlord-tenant-law prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination selective-enforcement standing |
1. Does pretrial court dismissing prima facie case before its evidence filing deadline constitute R. 103(D) plain error in constitutional violation of… |
| 20-5407 |
Dominique Mack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest |
1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this
Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5415 |
Gillman Roddy Long, aka Dave Gillman Long v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
1. Does an objection to the governments arguement that a defendant."had not denied the accusations against him." violate the fifth Amendment?
2. Does… |
| 20-5418 |
Danny Veloz, aka Maestro, aka Joil Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-discretion probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whose evidence is a trial judge allowed to consider in making the threshold determination that a defendant has made a substantial preliminary Franks s… |
| 20-129 |
Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence |
Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,… |
| 20-5299 |
Antonio Benson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense |
I.
Whether the ruling of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the opinion of the
Tennessee intermediate appellate court, that the Petitioner wa… |
| 20-5258 |
Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton |
1. Whether the District Court, failing to review such evidence and ignoring the Plaintiffs expert witness testimony, conflict with Supreme Court prece… |
| 20-5233 |
Michael R. Burns v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief |
1. Appoint Counsel And Recall A Mandate
2. When Appeals Court Have Jurisdiction Summary Cases, Where A Rule 33 Is Filed Under US v. CRONIC? |
| 20-5224 |
Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations |
A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual … |
| 20-5204 |
Lyudmila Lerner v. Stanley Cowen |
California |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony expert-witness fact-witness medical-testimony procedural-rules treating-physician witness-designation |
1. In the case at bar, Petitioner's Treating Physician was precluded from testifying as a Fact Witness and as an Expert Witness because the Treating P… |
| 20-5208 |
William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution |
PORSUANT TO THE PRECEDENT ESTARLISHED EN UNITED STATES V BONNER, 6H8 F.2d 2O9 (4MCIR 2O11), DID THE STATE SUFFICIENTLY PROVE IT'S BURDEN OF PROOF OF G… |
| 20-5149 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing |
1. Did The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Commit an Abuse of Discretion By: (a) Exceeding the Scope of Review Defined By 28 USC. § 1355) (b) Failure … |
| 20-5115 |
Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr… |
| 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… |
| 20-5014 |
Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review |
Whether the trial Court Violated Mr.Peralta Statutory and Constitutional Rights by Relying on Dr. Beth Hers sexual Abuse Finding because she based Her… |
| 19-8923 |
Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error |
I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg… |
| 19-8910 |
Trinity Rolando Cabezas-Montano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment miranda-rights post-arrest-statement pre-miranda-statement self-incrimination |
Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when they use a Defendant's pre-Miranda, post-arrest statements… |
| 19-8870 |
Daniel Vallejo Recio v. Rudy Vasquez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process evidence legal-relief procedural-dismissal standing witness witness-evidence |
(1) WHY WAS THE ATTACH STATE OF CLAIM UNITE DISMISS.?
(2) WHY THE REQUEST RELEAF WAS NOT GRANTED?
(3) WHY WAS COMPLAINT 42 USC.§ 1983 DISMISS ON THE… |
| 19-8885 |
Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
2) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATI… |
| 19-8824 |
Keith Newton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-counsel evidence jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1421 |
Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire |
1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors
Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law
Enforcement When Asked D… |
| 19-8796 |
Gary Daniel Rodgers v. R. McIntyre, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process evidence legal-equivalence motion motion-to-release notice-of-appeal procedural-requirements |
Whether Petitioner's timely filed "Motion and Order to Release Evidence " satisfies the requirements as a functional equivalent of a Notice of Appeal. |
| 19-8787 |
Wayne A. G. James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver |
If an attorney mistakenly remains silent and fails to object to inadmissible evidence, a later challenge is forfeited and subject to review only for p… |
| 19-8765 |
Tizazu F. Arega v. Lisa L. Sadler, Judge, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jury-instructions jury-misconduct legal-sufficiency sexual-intercourse trial-procedure verdict-validity |
PFrTTrSSp^t™ nl intercourse and the jury returned verdict findingSS 1KHSMafaSy 0™88 SS-HH 1™ THE JUHY HAD MOT BHM |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8747 |
Robert Neil Coronado v. Amanda Stinson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-integrity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
I.
Was a proceduval vialation due process Committed by the Cout of Appeals in failing to quant Certificate of Appealability or a an Evidentiary Hearin… |
| 19-1383 |
Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment |
This Court has held that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press requires that when a plaintiff sues a media defendant for libel, base… |
| 19-8703 |
David Sosa-Baladron, et ux. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did a fatal variance occur when the charge was of one conspiracy but the proofs were of two, one of which there was no evidence of Petitioners' inv… |
| 19-1373 |
Ming Wei v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination evidence fraud state-hearing |
Whether Wei's constitutional rights and due process rights were violated in the state proceedings
Whether the court of appeals erred in that PADOH di… |
| 19-8672 |
Terry Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime |
whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of keith Slugg, of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-8643 |
Wallace Eugene Evatt, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
1. Why was the Judge, Jury, and myself not told of Karen Rojas svicidal tendencies and many failed suicide attempts?
2. Is it not a Brady violation t… |
| 19-8608 |
Kison Robertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
1. How does the uis, court of Apperls upholds The District Count Decision to Letin Evidence thatwas not proven to have occurred in the trial Record? E… |
| 19-8627 |
Isaac Cardenas v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence consciousness-of-guilt criminal-procedure due-process evidence inference inference-vs-speculation speculation |
WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE FEDERAL DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT VENTURED INTO THE REALM OF MERE SPECULATION WHEN DECIDING AN INSUFFICIENCY OF … |
| 19-1327 |
Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the "contents" of a cell phone for unspecified "… |
| 19-8545 |
Duane Blake v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
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| 19-8533 |
Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
1. WHETHER OR NOT I CAN PETITION THE COURT FOR RELIEF
AND OR AN INJUNCTION UNDER OUR CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE TITLE 42
USCS § 1983, 1985, OR 1986 WHEN TH… |
| 19-8527 |
Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver |
1.) Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and
Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing.
2.) Whether a … |
| 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 |
Would reasonable jurists debate whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence that Mr. Niehouse's threatened use of fo… |
| 19-8468 |
Janice M. Shufford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
This case presents two issues. First, did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court and hold that it did not err in prohibiting the defense… |
| 19-8420 |
Charles Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-discretion witness-testimony |
1. Whether it is Unconstitutinal for defense Counsel to admit an accueds Suilt to the jury over the accused's objection? And also adMit and accused's … |
| 19-8407 |
Mauro Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability |
I. Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the ki liastruwtffefiirn used for electrophoresis and ether preliminocry pN/A anal… |
| 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 |
To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-1255 |
Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
|
aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA, given that this Court reversed the Ninth Circuit under materially similar circumstances in Nevada… |
| 19-8373 |
Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing |
Did ARIZONA COURT UOTE TW COURTS DETSION A) TONs adv. Mississipei By ENTELUNG QUDENCE oF A 1483. PRAGL CORVICNOI TAT. WAS SEF-ASIDE, DISMISSED. LAs Th… |
| 19-8380 |
Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence |
Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib… |
| 19-8360 |
Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony |
Is it lawful to have a witness testify in a case where they have NO Direct knowledge of the facts?
Can a State Court Joinder of Dissimilar charges, w… |
| 19-8353 |
Curtis Stokes v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Stokes and his codefendants were charged with multifarious felonies. On appeal, Stokes ' codefendant had the most serious charge dismissed for insu… |
| 19-1236 |
Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens |
South Dakota |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions |
1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing… |
| 19-8307 |
Jose Lopez v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-tampering habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct |
1) The State Superior court At Rockville sent me A letter stating that thay have misplaced the or some of the valuable evidece that I have provided at… |
| 19-8294 |
Roscoe Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-allegations criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions motion-in-limine position-of-trust |
Whether Johnson's Trial Counsel provided Constitutionally ineffective assistance of Trial Counsel when he failed to file a Motion in limine to prevent… |
| 19-1230 |
Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection |
I. DID THE COURT BELOW FAIL TO USE AN
APPROPRIATE STANDARD OF REVIEW
WHEN GRANTING ALL THE DISMISSAL
MOTIONS WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THE
PETITIONER 'S… |
| 19-1213 |
Buck Leon Hammers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found, failing to apply this Court's authority and contrary to other courts of appeals and other of its own pr… |
| 19-1214 |
Marty Friend v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm… |
| 19-8253 |
Rudolph Churchill v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hypothetical-question ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL (TRIAL COUNSEL)
*FAILING TO REQUEST THAT THE JURY BE CHARGED WITH RESPECT
… |
| 19-8217 |
Blake Jones v. McKee Foods Corporation |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery evidence pleadings summary-judgment |
May Defendant ignore evidence provided a purpose?
Summary of Judgement.
IS the word of the Phintiff to be believed? |
| 19-8231 |
Juvenile Male v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing |
Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic… |
| 19-8200 |
Don Farley v. Carl Parson |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony |
1. Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process?
2. Did the U.S. District Court fail to exercis… |
| 19-8205 |
In Re Jonathan E. Brunson |
|
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review |
WHETHER MR. BRUNSON'S RIGHT TO DISCOVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE IS STILL ENFORCEABLE (Id. AT 41)?
WHETHER THE STATE GOVERNMENT STILL HAS THE OBLIGATION … |
| 19-1195 |
Adalberto Frickson Palacios-Solis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
|
case-in-chief criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights pre-miranda-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause when it uses a criminal defendant's post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence … |
| 19-8177 |
Christopher Kyle Keys v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment cellular-phone-data character-evidence collateral-crimes criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion warrantless-search |
The State Trial Court denied a timely motion for severance of the charges from separate incidents. And the Trial Court allowed the State Attorney to p… |
| 19-8127 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights disciplinary-hearings documentary-evidence due-process evidence hearing-procedures prison-rights prisoners-rights video-surveillance wolff-v-mcdonnell |
McDonnell, HI 8 U.S. 558 ( IHTH )y established
prisoners' right 'to present documentary evidence ot
disciplinary hearings. vSmce then , lovuer court… |
| 19-1172 |
Mark Targowski v. Zachary Lee Rawlins |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process evidence evidence-standard jury per-curiam reasonable-jury standing verdict writ-of-certiorari |
Whether no reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict based on the evidence submitted. |
| 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. |
| 19-8040 |
Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility |
1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros… |
| 19-8025 |
Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant |
IF ectojal Mukwons te Soppiess Stabe ment aud Sean wocrant for
| untimely, The Arkousas Courk of Mppoale cevecsed and cewmanded
We clecuct Couct order… |
| 19-8021 |
Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle |
Issue 1: DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE
Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released p… |
| 19-7986 |
Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal |
Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to
prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
| 19-7987 |
Ashley R. Hambright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure driving-while-intoxicated due-process dui evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-appeals intoxication magistrate-review military-jurisdiction stare-decisis sufficiency-of-evidence |
Petitioner, ASHLEYR. HAMBRIGHT, appealed her twelve months of supervised probation
for driving while intoxicated ("DWI") on the grounds of a military … |
| 19-7982 |
Alex Penland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion |
1. Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor … |
| 19-7988 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review |
Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 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 |
I. Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail fraud, theft of public money, and wire fraud.
II. Did the trial court … |
| 19-7830 |
Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment |
Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth … |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado. In the alternative, there was Ins… |
| 19-7875 |
Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards |
1. THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS NOT ESTABLISHED
IN THE FEDERAL COURTS OR THE STATE COURTS ANY CASE
LAW INSTRUCTING JUDGES THAT THEY MUST EMPH… |
| 19-7853 |
Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a "wanted fugitive," evidence that d… |
| 19-7775 |
Rande Brian Isabella v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg… |
| 19-7773 |
James Curtis Denton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment |
Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the
foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation
Clause of… |
| 19-7769 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation |
If yourrepresenting yourself
do you think I'm
Competent to Stand trial or Sign a plea If you had
Fecent Surgery of having Part of your Intestine remov… |
| 19-7735 |
Ronnie Kearby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence |
1. In a federal drug conspiracy case where there is no drug seizure, may a court accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-test… |
| 19-7687 |
Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral
But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr
Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede
As Ne… |
| 19-1016 |
Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
|
business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions |
1. Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial, a sanct… |
| 19-7614 |
Jason Perry v. Richard Brown |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court |
1. Whether the Courts violated Rule 2/a) Governing Section 2254 Cases?
2. Whether withholding an officer's statement until the habeas Corpus stage is… |
| 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 |
Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion… |
| 19-7583 |
Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure |
Where I, Tiffany R. Byrd, was denied to receive an alternative evidentiary hearing on my claims of Illegal Search and Seizure. Where I was denied an e… |
| 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 |
1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE… |
| 19-7593 |
Young Yi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Ms. Yi's Motion for a New Trial, given the Government's substantial vi… |
| 19-7571 |
Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Tennessee |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue |
Whether, as applied to the facts of this case, the statutory presumption if a body of a murder victim found within the state, the death is presumed to… |
| 19-7525 |
Gregory Joel Sitzmann v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-laws conflict-with-other-courts-of-appeals conflict-with-supreme-court court-of-appeals criminal-procedure drug-smuggling evidence federal-sentencing foreign-drug-smuggling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-evidence pro-se-petition prosecutorial-misconduct |
1) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT LACKED "JURISDICTION" OVER EVIDENCE OF FOREIGN DRUG SMUGGLING: AND WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DI… |
| 19-7521 |
Elisha Paul Harley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission free-speech judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case legal-review magistrate-judge magistrate-procedure racist-comments review standing |
Whether a trial court may depart from the law of the case on an evidentiary ruling after a mistrial when the initial legal ruling was not clearly erro… |
| 19-7469 |
Olga Palamarchuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent |
This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U… |
| 19-7474 |
Rodney Banks v. California |
California |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights deliberation due-process evidence jurisdiction police-misconduct standing |
ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd Me My MIRANDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce FOR DelibeRATiON. |
| 19-7475 |
Douglas Edwin Ball, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal civil-rights conviction dna-evidence due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury jury-instructions unanimous-verdict |
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| 19-7489 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon |
1) Whether the Circumstances regarding the Founth Amendment Exslusionary Rule 20.08, thatis revolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of ev… |
| 19-7405 |
Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams |
New Jersey |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred.
Whether … |
| 19-7377 |
Gerald Adger v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence |
1. WAS THE APPELLATE ATTORNEY DAVID R. JUERGENS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING ANY LEGAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE?
… |
| 19-7390 |
Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered
exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that
the … |
| 19-7357 |
Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing |
Whether the USDO-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice the Petitioner's §1982 Complaint … |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste… |
| 19-7270 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault |
1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Saved with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence teste… |
| 19-7294 |
Mohammed Kwaning v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's
(a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7296 |
In Re Gilbert M. Martinez |
|
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability |
Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman… |
| 19-876 |
Fernando A. Ramirez v. Dave Hogue, et al. |
North Dakota |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights court-integrity document-fraud due-process evidence evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct legal-procedure public-records spoliation |
After a 911 call, the police officer makes a report of what happened; This is electronically recorded and is called CALL FOR SERVICE. This document, b… |
| 19-7255 |
Fernando Duran v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acknowledgment criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard jury narcotics-law reasonable-doubt |
This case raises a fundamental question about the government's burden to prove a defendant's guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. The jury here convicte… |
| 19-7261 |
Gibron Lopez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship |
1. Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how the… |
| 19-7244 |
David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal |
According to Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice, Josephine L. Hart, There is no remedy in the Arkansas criminal court system which permits prisoners… |
| 19-7228 |
Jerry Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by
"We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision
the admission, with a limiting ins… |
| 19-7208 |
Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal … |
| 19-7212 |
Ronald Lee Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7213 |
Rodney Banks v. California |
California |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure |
I AM ReQUesTinG FoR ReVIeW THAT -ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd ME my MIRAnDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce foR DelibeRATiON. |
| 19-7138 |
Michael Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony |
1. Whether in a prosecution for illegally dumping waste into a creek, where a major part of the Government's case was based on eyewitness testimony ab… |
| 19-7183 |
Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree |
1. Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of
judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree, as
*there is insufficient evidence to sust… |
| 19-7151 |
Erick David Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w… |
| 19-829 |
Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure burden-of-proof due-process evidence inter-partes-review patent patent-challenge patent-law reply reply-evidence |
When a party files a petition for Inter Partes Review, the petition "must identify 'each claim challenged,' the grounds for the challenge, and the evi… |
| 19-7089 |
Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile
and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not
w… |
| 19-7096 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction |
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| 19-7054 |
Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide |
Philip Rogers was driving after several drinks. Ahead of him a woman was jaywalking, possibly obscured by two bicyclists also crossing. When he saw th… |
| 19-7055 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether mewly Discovened Evidence From the American socity % crime Laboratory Advise to the sate scuntficand the oNA Evidence dunng tnal, thatwas S… |
| 19-7027 |
Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to [sustain] a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide where the Commonwealth f… |
| 19-7037 |
Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. |
Georgia |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure |
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| 19-7043 |
John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7018 |
Scott Ray Bishop v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony personal-knowledge structural-error technical-element testimony |
1. Whether the exclusion of a defendant's testimony based on first-hand, personal knowledge of a technical element of the offense charged is structura… |
| 19-6961 |
Hernan Navarro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
fordamenton error of equitable sharispr tence by evaluating the Detitoners
WS Under an erroneous Stendo revi Me tn &&
B0id Claimg being unFarnly rejec… |
| 19-6945 |
Kevin Dameron v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE ILLINOIS STATE COURT ERRED IN ITS APPLICATION OF WELL ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT DECLARED IN NEIL v. BIGGERS, 409 U… |
| 19-6956 |
Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense |
1. DID THE NEW JERSEY STATE COURT ENDORSE THE USE OF N.J.R.E. 806 AS A VEHICLE FOR IMPEACHING NON-TESTIFYING CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS WITH THEIR PRIOR CONV… |
| 19-6911 |
Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution |
Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when it s distinct… |
| 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 |
The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c… |
| 19-6909 |
Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
When the Government affirms that all the requisite documents under the rule of Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963) will be provided, but then suppress… |
| 19-6901 |
Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial |
I.
THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN
UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING
ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH
VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY… |
| 19-6805 |
Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment, Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner?
1.
2. Were the decisions rendered b… |
| 19-6782 |
Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. |
Virginia |
2019-11-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation |
I. The Court of Appeals of Virginia (CAVA) request all documents from Virginia
Workers' Compensation Commission on my appeal. VAWCC withheld sixty-nin… |
| 19-662 |
Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
1. Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury under the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is violated when a United St… |
| 19-6731 |
Travell Henry v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment trial-strategy witness witness-testimony |
I. WAS MR. HENRY 'S TRIAL COUNSEL, PATRICK NYENHUS, FAILED TO PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL?
A). Counsel was ineffective w… |
| 19-6737 |
Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent |
I. Petitioner asks did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the
United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and u… |
| 19-6676 |
Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability |
I. Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in-chief implicates the Six… |
| 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, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact… |
| 19-622 |
Thomas S. Bell v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-test criminal-procedure driving-under-influence driving-under-the-influence due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a motorist's assertion of his Fourth Amendment right to refuse consent to a warrantless blood test may be used as evidence of guilt for the of… |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6610 |
Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers based on a few isolated questi… |
| 19-6587 |
Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
1. Petitioner was the passenger in a vehicle stopped for a driving infraction. When Petitioner opened the glove compartment to retrieve the vehicle's … |
| 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… |
| 19-6524 |
Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge |
Whether, for the element of "causing the death" an essential element of malice murder in Georgia O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), the indictment which accused the … |
| 19-6478 |
Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testi… |
| 19-6427 |
Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale, fufill their professional responsibilities and obligati… |
| 19-572 |
Ravneet Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury jury-instructions standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether, upon invalidating one of two alternative theories of liability presented to a jury, the reviewing court should ask if there is "sufficient… |
| 19-6446 |
William L. Edwards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Why was William Edwards never allowed to present the 911 evidence that exonerates him to a jury. Why was William Edwards scheduled for four trials dur… |
| 19-6448 |
Garrett Dean Door, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment. civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence liberty |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIR'S CASE LAW NOW CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT WHERE A DEFENDANT, WHO EXERCISES HIS RIGHT TO PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE, HAS PREJUD… |
| 19-6403 |
Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact |
Is it reasonably pertinent to diagnosisd or treat(mend)" when the stade ments made are clearly beyond the Scope of a SANE examination& Would this be h… |
| 19-6422 |
Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure |
1). why didn't the First District Court oF Appeals,
State of Florida, rule fairly in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal
on the merits of the issues in the… |
| 19-6411 |
Tyler Joseph Barefield v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-perpetrator alternative-perpetrator-evidence constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense state-evidentiary-requirements state-evidentiary-rules |
To what extent— consistent with the right to present a defense —
may a State restrict the ability of a defendant to present evidence tending
to establ… |
| 19-6362 |
Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
ARE CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS' REQUIRED TO PLEAD AND PROVE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT UNDER BRADY v. MARYLAND, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), AND ITS… |
| 19-6373 |
Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code |
1. Did The Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington Error by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the Pu… |
| 19-6381 |
Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony |
I.
DID THE TRIAL JUDGE VIOLATE THE PETTIONER'S DUE PROCESS
RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL AND IMPARTIAL JUDCE. TO NSURE
DUE PROCESS, AND FOR THE JUDGE TO AVOI… |
| 19-6351 |
Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i… |
| 19-533 |
River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment |
In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid… |
| 19-6322 |
Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors |
1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE
DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR
TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6333 |
Juan Gabriel Angulo-Cabrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
codefendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-attorney evidence evidentiary-hearing false-accusations ineffective-assistance phone-records right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-counsel |
1). Whether the District and Appellate Courts erred in denying Defendant an
evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective assistance of trial couns… |
| 19-6340 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde… |
| 19-6323 |
Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony |
1. WHETHER A DECISION AFFIRMING EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE ,
IN THIS CASE A TRANSCRIPT, CAN BE CORRECT IF
UNINFORMED AS TO THE TRANSCRIPT'S ACTUAL CONTEN… |
| 19-6303 |
Jeffrey Jason Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause due-process evidence fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the lower Courts erred in allowing multiple
hearsay statements of five alleged witnesses and other
non-testifying witnesses whom did not testi… |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-6292 |
Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's finding that the petitioner was not given the opportunity to have a hearing on hi… |
| 19-6294 |
Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure |
Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,… |
| 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 |
I.
Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to
transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali… |
| 19-471 |
Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing |
Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Exodu… |
| 19-6244 |
Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
.WhEthER fectiv ASisA of COUE ws h WhE cOU AppoNd cOUe ft
CRMN RACICE to peSUE rNSURAUCE lAW the MIdle of y MEl. whCh cAUSE y AEAl to
bE disMissEd "du… |
| 19-456 |
John Buncich v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) |
Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo… |
| 19-6166 |
Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey |
Whether the executive system lien has able to come the decision of the presume and mittence as polygraph evidence conflict with or departs from accept… |
| 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 |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-6171 |
Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony |
1. DID THE STATE APPELLATE COURT AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT
ERR IN DENYING PETITIONER 'S APPEAL BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE
PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF… |
| 19-6145 |
Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony |
In light of the decisions in Jackson v Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), whether the trial court erred in finding the petitioner guilty beyond a reasonab… |
| 19-6150 |
Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict |
1. WILL THIS COURT ADDRESS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT AND BOTH THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT AND APPELLATE COURT OVER ILLINOIS RUL… |
| 19-6091 |
James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review |
1.Why th cse as fidand it tms from201 nt 2017
2. To Keep fming the
of cheating the State of Arkansas
Cheating Scandle and the
the Government for: Col… |
| 19-6103 |
Farid John Popal v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-misconduct jurisdiction law-enforcement skype-testimony witness witness-coaching witness-testimony |
WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT'S COACHING THE WITNESS'AS HOW
TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, WHILE GOVERNMENT WITNESS WAS
TESTIFYING AGAINST THE PETITIONER FROM FLORI… |
| 19-6069 |
Kevin Dewitt Skaggs v. Ron Baker, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sixth-amendment cumulative-analysis evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overwhelming-evidence pre-trial-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Whether defense counsel performs unreasonably under the Sixth Amendment if their pre-trial and trial investigations and strategies are based on their … |
| 19-6063 |
William Alexander v. New York |
New York |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony misidentification photographic-evidence |
Whether Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), and its progeny require the admission of reliable photographic evidence of what an accused was w… |
| 19-6064 |
Tommy Cole v. R. J. Rackley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kelly-hearing sixth-amendment videographic-evidence |
1. ) THE COURT ERRED, A kelly hearing was required to test the reliability of
the process used to create the videotape of still photographs originall… |
| 19-393 |
Estelle Stein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process due-process-clause evidence evidence-submission federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment |
After a court of appeals vacated summary judgment in its favor, the Government filed a new summary judgment motion against a defendant taxpayer, with … |
| 19-6026 |
Roland Michael Simon v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction federal-law-enforcement standing united-nations |
The Question(s) H like would Innocent by the way 8410 Direct Evidence, & 11l5 Evidence by clear and Convincing Proof, or by Proof Beyond a reasonable … |
| 19-6051 |
Hezekiah Whitfield v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corroborative-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-restriction fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether Peririoner Made A Substantial Showing
Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth
Amendmenr Due Process Rights Where Pericioner
Was Restricted F… |
| 19-6030 |
Craig Elias v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim due-process evidence evidence-promise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Does Strickland apply to ineffectiveness claims vis-avis trial counsel's broken promise to produce evidence? |
| 19-6000 |
Kevin Kelley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules propensity-evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Whether the state trial court erred in admitting the testimony of two witnesses for the purpose of showing the defendant's propensity to commit the ch… |
| 19-5993 |
Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings |
Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi… |
| 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 |
True the felony had to be independest of the illing,was
Prejudicial and sequses Reversal of The Special.
C'rcunstance Finding
Code Section 1los stad … |
| 19-5970 |
Murad Razzaq v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes |
Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime? |
| 19-5948 |
Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility |
In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve conflicting evidence, assess the credibility of witnesses, or view the evidenc… |
| 19-5920 |
Michael Don Pogue v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Mr. Pogue alleged that his trial counsel, William G. Mason, was ineffective and presented 18 specific points of ineffective assistance of counsel to t… |
| 19-5909 |
Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search |
Whether the "good faith" exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. |
| 19-5879 |
Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers? |
| 19-5895 |
Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter |
Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as… |
| 19-5844 |
James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-error due-process evidence expert-testimony precedent pro-se-litigant standing summary-judgment |
Did the District Court error in determining that a 9th Circuit Appellate ruling from almost two decades ago in Bahrampour v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 97… |
| 19-5876 |
Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County |
Wisconsin |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad |
Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli… |
| 19-5855 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials |
I.
WHETHER MICHIGAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS
FAILED TO
PERFORM THERE
DUTIES AND DEPRIVED
PETITIONER
OF DUE PROCES
OF LAW?
II.
WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS DENIED WH… |
| 19-5832 |
Daniel G. Durain v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt |
In a First degree premeditated murder trial, can motive be used to establish premeditation?
If so, is a defendant's conviction unconstitutional where… |
| 19-5806 |
John Bradham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS ADMISSION OF A VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED DRUG AND FIREARM TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE CI AND THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE C… |
| 19-279 |
Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
|
advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause |
After a two-day Bench Trial in a malicious prosecution action, the District Court altered video evidence, and ignored other "smoking gun" evidence. A… |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights.
(2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… |
| 19-5761 |
Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 19-269 |
Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim - here, that defendant Entergy retaliated against … |
| 19-5758 |
Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes "other than their truth" ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation? |
| 19-246 |
Massood Jallali v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense brady-rule brady-violation-claim criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence theory-of-innocence |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT DEPARTED FROM THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF LAW IN DISCOVERY RULINGS THAT RESULTED IN A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND DEPRIVATION… |
| 19-5606 |
Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing |
Did the trial court erred by admitting into evidence of the illegally obtained wiretapped tape recording of the defendant's oral conversations with th… |
| 19-5607 |
Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION.
THE FEDERAL CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (6TH AMEND.)(was violated).
DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT. RIGHT TO EFF… |
| 19-201 |
Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert |
California |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing |
(1) Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402, removing Respondent from the litigation,… |
| 19-5620 |
Damien Hyde v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence non-defendant-witnesses substantive-evidence witness-testimony |
1. Does the admission of Coerced Statements by Non-defendant Witnesses deprive a defendant of Due Process of law, when they are used during trial as s… |
| 19-5592 |
Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making |
1. Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions?
… |
| 19-5596 |
Eric T. Latham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search |
Is whether this Court's ruling in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009), permitted police officers to conduct a "search incident to arrest" for only "p… |
| 19-5462 |
Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias |
WAS THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVE INFERENCE THE GOVERNMENT WAS WAS THERE GROUNDS FOR A OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR MY ARREST WAS THERE HOSPITAL RECORD… |
| 19-5474 |
Terry Lee Carlson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, when ruling on the validity of a search of a computer located in Minnesota conducted pursuant to a search war… |
| 19-5481 |
Jomo Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment |
Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated |
| 19-5457 |
Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC … |
| 19-5458 |
Samantha Winter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
whether-miranda-rights-were-violated |
| 19-159 |
Carlos Tapia v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-statement |
Whether a witness's total memory loss prevents him from testifying about his prior out-of-court testimonial statement, and whether the witness's mere … |
| 19-5428 |
Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-141 |
Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness |
Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden… |
| 19-5376 |
Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment |
| 19-5397 |
Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information
Whether the seventh circuit applic… |
| 19-5400 |
Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion |
Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence? |
| 19-5387 |
Shevaun E. Browne v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Third Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that trial counsel was not ineffective for fa… |
| 19-5340 |
Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 19-5334 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification |
Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction |
| 19-5317 |
Alonzo Vernon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment |
Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra? |
| 19-5289 |
Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender? |
| 19-5290 |
Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was… |
| 19-5254 |
Jose Arroyo v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement |
Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho… |
| 19-5204 |
Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence |
Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper? |
| 19-5205 |
Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment |
Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s… |
| 19-5224 |
Lee Chang v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment |
Was recorded evidence by law enforcement and presented by the prosecutor given in a timely manner as well as can it be considered a Brady violation du… |
| 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… |
| 19-5136 |
Sha-Ron Haines v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy |
Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's … |
| 19-5114 |
Jovanny Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi due-process evidence fifth-amendment indictment indictment-variance interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial variance |
Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without having an opportunity to establish an alibi due to a variance between the indictment and evidence at tr… |
| 19-5079 |
Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence … |
| 19-32 |
Gordon Scott Stroh v. Saturna Capital Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
cause-of-action civil-procedure dismissal evidence evidence-dismissal motion-in-limine standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court |
What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion in limine that has the practical effect of dismissing an enti… |
| 19-23 |
Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-regulations agency-rulemaking black-lung-benefits-act burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidentiary-standards regulatory-amendment standing |
Does requiring a wrongly-named Responsible Operator to issue benefits to a Claimant with normal pulmonary function and normal arterial blood gas testi… |
| 19-5035 |
Calvin James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trial witness |
Do officers need consent to search private property without a search warrant? |
| 19-5022 |
Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n… |
| 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 |
| 18-9816 |
Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing |
Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 18-9817 |
Deterryon Tyrell Kelly v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard inference-stacking jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency speculative-evidence sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can evidence meet the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia if the evidence relied upon for conviction is primarily speculative and infere… |
| 18-1579 |
Ronnie Ricks, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation defendant-rights due-process evidence miranda right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence video-evidence |
Whether showing a videotape containing testimonial actions is proper, after an accused has invoked his right to counsel? |
| 18-9765 |
Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness |
Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior … |
| 18-9774 |
Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California |
California |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial |
Whether the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to propensity evidence violates Fourteenth Amendment due process |
| 18-9740 |
Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing |
Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of first-degree murder and also to support the sentence of life imprisonment, and did the resentenc… |
| 18-1556 |
Peggy Edwards, et al. v. Louisiana Workforce Commission, et al. |
Louisiana |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-adjudication agency-decision burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard medical-claims medical-treatment standing workers-compensation |
Does the Louisiana administrative system for adjudicating medical claims by injured workers violate due process |
| 18-1559 |
Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation |
Why did the Colorado courts refuse to seek the truth in this case? |
| 18-9735 |
Carlton Darden v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 |
Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district court authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base… |
| 18-9712 |
Noe Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new trial… |
| 18-9657 |
Joseph Howard Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit |
Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay? |
| 18-9675 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence |
Should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of an officer support de novo review of the district court'… |
| 18-9677 |
Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter… |
| 18-9678 |
Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson? |
| 18-9650 |
Shawn Pinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony |
When be Bate Krouingt, used Se benany, a was, bogan be |
| 18-9660 |
William T. Windsor v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence newly-discovered-evidence standing |
Did The DeLaroate Stnle Courts, Violate Windsor's Sthandjdth amendments and Duc Proaess Rughts, When *t Red to Consider newly ds dovered evidence onda… |
| 18-9602 |
Colby L. Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination |
Did the district court violate petitioner's Fifth Amendment right as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (19… |
| 18-9612 |
Gregory Rayford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the Illinois state court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-9623 |
Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-relief asset-freezing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence indigent-defendant |
Whether the courts have abridged the defendant's 14th Amendment due-process, equal-protection rights by disregarding evidence and barring appellate re… |
| 18-9627 |
Jeffrey Dean Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standing witness-testimony |
Whether due process was violated in convicting a North Carolina state citizen pursuant to general jurisdiction? |
| 18-1529 |
Louis R. Koerner, Jr., Individually and as Assignee of Jean McCurdy Meade v. CMR Construction & Roofing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
|
certification civil-procedure declarations erie-doctrine evidence material-issues-of-fact non-moving-party procedural-protections rule-54(b) rule-54b rule-59(e) rule-59e standard-of-consideration summary-judgment |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court apply an incorrect standard of consideration by not considering the declarations of a non-moving party sufficient to estab… |
| 18-9583 |
Alfredo M. Vasquez v. California |
California |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process evidence federal-constitution jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sexual-assault sexual-contacts state-constitution victim |
Was the exclusion of evidence regarding the alleged victim's prior sexual contacts with her boyfriend a denial of due process under the Federal and St… |
| 18-9591 |
Brandon Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-evidence standing state-law-conflict texas-law |
When evidence is illegally obtained in violation of California laws can Texas legally benefit from this illegal act by allowing this evidence in a Tex… |
| 18-9571 |
Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure |
Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth … |
| 18-9560 |
Anthony Wright v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure,civil-rights,due-process,free-spee civil-rights discovery due-process evidence standing summary-judgment |
Whether the court erred in ruling against the plaintiff |
| 18-9527 |
Thomas Branagan v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-victim civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault standing testimony-inconsistency witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct |
| 18-1506 |
Julian Martin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt… |
| 18-9497 |
Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Why would the petitioner accept a plea agreement to the worst case scenario without being of sound mind? |
| 18-9500 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort |
Issues being raised |
| 18-9509 |
Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington |
With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the 'bad faith' exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out… |
| 18-9461 |
Antonio Tillmon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts |
| 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 |
| 18-9470 |
R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence |
Whether statements made to the SANE nurse are testimonial for Sixth Amendment purposes |
| 18-1491 |
Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i… |
| 18-1479 |
Jason P. Stinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-7402 burden-of-proof disgorge disgorgement due-process due-process,tax-preparation,26-usc-7402,permanent- evidence injunction internal-revenue-code litigation-conduct permanent-injunction tax-preparation tax-preparer |
Whether issuing a permanent injunction and an order to disgorge $949,000 against the owner of a tax preparation business under 26 U.S.C. § 7402 violat… |
| 18-9446 |
Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses |
| 18-9414 |
Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony |
Whether a trial court abuses its discretion, within the confines of procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, by limiting cros… |
| 18-1462 |
Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe |
California |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict |
Whether the California courts violated petitioners' due process rights by omitting numerous relevant and probative facts and laws in their decisions, … |
| 18-9397 |
Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search |
Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus… |
| 18-9405 |
John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial |
Was the defendant denied effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-9406 |
Ricky Carlos Grant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony standard-of-review telephone-evidence witness-qualification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the United States District Court for Western District … |
| 18-9382 |
Joshua Wofford v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard |
| 18-9353 |
Trista Rodriguez v. Nationwide Homes, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages due-process evidence standing |
When does token for lawfulness purpose constitute evidence that constitutional and civil rights were violated by the defendants in establishing an inj… |
| 18-9347 |
Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation |
Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three… |
| 18-9281 |
Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. |
Virgin Islands |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel |
Whether the counsel's failure to cross-examine the main witness Beatrice Lawrence constituted ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-9235 |
Richard McMillan, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence inconsistent-evidence inconsistent-testimony judicial-discretion motion-for-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal petitioner-defense state-evidence trial trial-court trial-court-evidence |
Can the Trial Court forbid Submission of Evidence at trial that supports Petitioner's Defense, when in fact, there's a dispute? |
| 18-1411 |
Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix |
Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de… |
| 18-9189 |
Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing |
Did the refusal to order re-sentencing on the remaining conviction, limited to evidence supporting that conviction, violate Conley's right to due proc… |
| 18-9202 |
Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A… |
| 18-9175 |
Corey Milledge v. Gray English, Assistant Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
bowen-v-warden civil-rights due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan harm prison standing threat united-states-v-white |
Whether a threat to inflict physical or other harm constitutes a substantial risk of serious harm in light of principles set forth in United States v.… |
| 18-9119 |
Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp… |
| 18-9132 |
Earlie Dickerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba… |
| 18-9102 |
Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Excessive-Force claim |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit failed to properly apply Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922(e) |
| 18-9110 |
Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances |
What spectrum of evidence is required to prove actual innocence claim? |
| 18-9034 |
Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence |
Can the presentation of an (Alias) or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged as Tampering with Evidence, … |
| 18-8974 |
Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods |
Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence? |
| 18-8980 |
Raheem D. Louis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification witness-testimony |
Question not identified |
| 18-8944 |
Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie… |
| 18-8955 |
Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation |
Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability |
| 18-8928 |
Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing |
Whether a warrantless entry and search, where the totality of the circumstances indicates that exigent circumstances had occurred, or was recovering e… |
| 18-8894 |
Robert L. Mayfield v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) |
Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E) |
| 18-8902 |
Gustav Kloszewski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)? |
| 18-8862 |
Roderick White v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens |
Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e… |
| 18-8873 |
Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental |
Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
| 18-8880 |
M. A. Edwards, aka Michael Anthony Edwards v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fabricated-testimony fraud government-misconduct impeachment standing testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement |
Can the government tell the triers of fact that defendant confessed to murder |
| 18-8843 |
John Leroy Milne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-identity drug-quantity due-process evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Milne conspired to possess and knowingly possessed with inte… |
| 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… |
| 18-8815 |
Scott Randall Reich v. Mike Slagle, Correctional Administrator, Mountain View Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial standing witness-testimony |
Has rules of evidence precluded by Speedy Trial Act from being used to impeach witness testimony? |
| 18-8827 |
David McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness |
Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insinua… |
| 18-8766 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing |
Whether a district court can make factual findings based on evidence that may not be admissible at trial |
| 18-8800 |
Stephen R. Winn v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-expert-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fair-trial judicial-discretion testimony |
Whether the court erred in allowing the expert witness to testify without her notes and denying the defendant the right to review the notes as part of… |
| 18-8734 |
Corey D. Phillips v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-testimony |
Was the defendant's counsel ineffective for failing to properly investigate and present evidence of a plea agreement? |
| 18-8767 |
Antonio Slaton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release |
Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca… |
| 18-8757 |
Jason Lee Tincher v. Tim Berners-Lee |
Colorado |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review standing |
Why didn't the judge do a full investigation? |
| 18-1262 |
Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
|
admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof |
Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence |
| 18-8602 |
Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing |
Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o… |
| 18-8614 |
Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'terminal ballistics test' used to determine the dangerousness of ammunition is properly applied in this case |
| 18-8557 |
Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel based on counsel's failure to object to the conf… |
| 18-8566 |
John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review |
Whether multiple instances of circumstantial evidence can accumulate and become direct evidence? |
| 18-8574 |
William Burton v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-8577 |
Gerald W. Long v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure |
Did the Trial Court violate Gerald Long's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jur… |
| 18-8533 |
Lance Williams v. California |
California |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description |
Whether the state courts erred in denying appeal on prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report differs… |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames 'Crip' and ''Scrap,' which have been taken as a suggestion th… |
| 18-1220 |
Cleveland Franklin v. American Elevator Inspections, Inc. |
Texas |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment affidavit-evidence burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process elevator-safety evidence negligence personal-injury standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Whether a plaintiff must anticipate and preemptively rebut every possible inference favoring the defendant, even if implausible, to survive summary ju… |
| 18-8470 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing |
Has the District Court denied Mr. Jones a fair trial by allowing unsustained and unproven testimony into evidence |
| 18-8448 |
Edward Bishop v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant |
Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-1188 |
Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision |
Whether it is reasonable for police to infer that a driver was intoxicated at the time of a collision based solely on the fact that the driver was fou… |
| 18-8403 |
Sergio Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability |
Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability |
| 18-8367 |
Lamar Williams v. American Auto Logistics |
New Jersey |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review court-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-opinion judicial-opinion legal-standing standing witness-testimony witnesses |
Is the prior court's decision constitutional? |
| 18-8372 |
Dominique Green v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellant-rights civil-procedure civil-rights court-determination due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fact fact-and-law informal-marriage legal-sufficiency marriage marriage-evidence standing |
Did she Loust of Anpeads eccod Wwhen it derermincd aod Vert WHS leqarlyy \\asudlicient evidence to Estaalish a inloramnal Wnarrage Wer Ween Appatank A… |
| 18-8379 |
John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
Whether statements obtained during a 'sane nurse' examination have become 'testimonial' for purposes of the Confrontation Clause under Crawford v. Was… |
| 18-8346 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense? |
| 18-1158 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial |
| 18-8297 |
John Baccus v. Edgar L. Clements, III, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
4th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court's proceedings that led to petitioner's sentence violated his constitutional and statutory due process rights |
| 18-8291 |
Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a habeas petitioner must show that absent the attorney's deficient performance, no other evidence supported the verdict |
| 18-8184 |
Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing |
Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction |
| 18-8218 |
Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression |
Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-8219 |
Jose J. Hernandez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence felony-murder ineffective-assistance newly-presented standing |
Did appellate counsel render ineffective assistance |
| 18-8141 |
Brian Taylor v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alibi-witness civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct trial trial-counsel |
Was trial counsel ineffective for not calling an alibi witness? |
| 18-8129 |
Charles Russell v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission reasonable-doubt social-media social-media-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the Trial Court relieve the state of its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt when it allowed the state to show the jury photos found o… |
| 18-8074 |
Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction |
| 18-8114 |
Anthony Boyd v. Joe D. Driver, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence government-transparency legal-standing material-fact standing summary-judgment transparency video-evidence |
Whether Lack Of Transparency Of Video Evidence By The Government, Standing Alone, Creates A Genuine Issue Of Material Fact In A Civil Action? |
| 18-1082 |
Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation |
Does the Sixth Circuit Court's split decision determining a statement by a party opponent to be hearsay directly contradict other Circuit Court decisi… |
| 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… |
| 18-1079 |
Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording |
Whether a State may obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a defendant where the primary evidence of guilt was a wire-record… |
| 18-8014 |
Wyley Tomas Baird v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment jury-instructions opinion petition prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sexual-assault supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Was Petitioner denied due process of law and the right to be convicted only upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-7992 |
Kessele Livingston v. Lauri Esslinger, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law child-custody civil-rights due-process evidence government-agencies government-authority standing |
Does a government agency have the authority to verify the age of a child who is in their custody and the child's mother and father there? |
| 18-7896 |
Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two-level enhancement for 'knowingly engaging in distribution' of child-pornography under… |
| 18-7944 |
Jerkeno Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error |
Was there an error by the court at sentencing when court considered observations of the non-testifying defendant as basis of proving no remorse |
| 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? |
| 18-1054 |
Jason Allen Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
|
admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions |
Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution |
| 18-1046 |
Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings |
| 18-1049 |
Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi… |
| 18-7855 |
Barry Glenn Thunder v. Douglas Weber, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
Why was the petitioner arrested on a forensic charge when the videos clearly show the victim's right hand that is clearly seen in the videos to prove … |
| 18-7812 |
Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane |
Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case |
| 18-7834 |
Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination |
Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t… |
| 18-7846 |
Reginald Hough v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances |
Was there probable cause for the search warrant? |
| 18-7781 |
Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts |
Whether a person's misrepresentation of his age at the time of arrest or the person's birth date in a court of law should be considered |
| 18-7764 |
Marcellus French v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review |
Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the… |
| 18-7766 |
Rishawn Lamar Reeder v. Cecelia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alibi-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-presentation eyewitness-testimony gunshot-residue impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense surveillance-video trial-counsel witness witness-testimony |
Did the court err in finding trial counsel ineffective |
| 18-7746 |
Joseph Davis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure |
Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during… |
| 18-7757 |
William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification |
Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples |
| 18-7717 |
Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui… |
| 18-7698 |
Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver |
Does trial counsel waive a defendant's right to appellate review of an erroneous ruling on evidence if counsel chooses not to object to the ruling whe… |
| 18-7641 |
Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether the natural and probable consequences of a criminal act can support a conviction for second-degree murder under the 'natural and probable cons… |
| 18-7625 |
Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing |
Can the sites of the United States government maintain a valid conviction based on a DNA report that does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt to suppo… |
| 18-7634 |
Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-7611 |
Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority |
Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and … |
| 18-7571 |
Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction |
Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav… |
| 18-7582 |
Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process |
| 18-7514 |
Toni R. Palmer v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Technology Risk Office |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-merits civil-procedure complaint-analysis court-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-review legal-interpretation pleadings standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and appeals court erred when they granted the defendant's motion to dismiss despite evidence submitted by the plaintiff tha… |
| 18-7553 |
Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness |
Whether a defendant can be convicted by a jury when two key witnesses (owners of the home) were not allowed to testify |
| 18-961 |
Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings |
Whether the court erred in not being consistent with prior Supreme Court decisions regarding the requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 claims to address new e… |
| 18-7525 |
Delexsia Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 |
Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def… |
| 18-7501 |
GwanJun Kim v. Grand Valley State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure complaint dismissal due-process evidence factual-findings jurisdiction marshal service-of-process standing summons time-limits |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint for failure to serve the defendants within the time period required by Rule 4(m) of the F… |
| 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? |
| 18-7414 |
Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence and … |
| 18-7437 |
Damilola Animashaun v. William Schmidt, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Plaintiff provided sufficient evidence to support his claims? |
| 18-7400 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr… |
| 18-7407 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Circuit Court of Maryland, Washington County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence immunity injunctive-relief standing |
Did The lower Court err in Granting Absolute Immunity to All defendants, Refusing and Dismissing his Claims for Injunctive Relief, and in Denying Indi… |
| 18-7376 |
Scott Peters v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence standing |
Whether the records used by the Commissioner as substantial evidence were found to be clearly erroneous |
| 18-7308 |
Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-agent jury-instructions photographic-evidence pro-se-defense prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the government presented unreliable expert testimony and improperly influenced the jury |
| 18-7318 |
Jesus Gomez v. California |
California |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries |
Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process |
| 18-7330 |
Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu… |
| 18-7245 |
Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony |
Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was violated when the government presented hearsay evidence against him at t… |
| 18-7290 |
Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing |
Whether the court should reverse and remand due to the admission of evidence of prior conviction used as enhancement that was not fulfilled |
| 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… |
| 18-7303 |
Joel Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility |
Whether Rosemond v. United States was wrongly interpreted and applied |
| 18-875 |
Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards |
Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals… |
| 18-7272 |
Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was admitted erroneously |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether the sentencing court erred in admitting hearsay statements as excited utterances |
| 18-856 |
Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department |
Maryland |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations |
Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland? |
| 18-7200 |
Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense is an actual innoc… |
| 18-7206 |
Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review |
Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente |
| 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? |
| 18-7190 |
Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court |
Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as… |
| 18-7165 |
Drakile Leroy Jones v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence michigan-supreme-court sixth-amendment standing state-court-appeal supervisory-power williamson-v-united-states |
Whether the decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals conflicts with Crawford v. Washington? |
| 18-7137 |
Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
May withholding exculpatory and impeaching evidence be disregarded and/or used to obtain or sustain a conviction? |
| 18-7110 |
James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 18-7050 |
Javier Portillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate |
| 18-763 |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review |
Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t… |
| 18-7024 |
Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence — post-trial — without notice are unconst… |
| 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 |
| 18-6935 |
Joshua Donald Ewing v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process electronic-device-evidence evidence jackson-v-virginia registration standard-of-proof user-identification |
Whether this Court's Opinion in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 (1979) needs updating to address what constitutes sufficient evidence, in ident… |
| 18-6910 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court improperly denied Musa's Rule 29 motion |
| 18-6894 |
David Crosby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding conflicts with the Seventh Circuit's and this Court's precedent as it concerns improper vouching |
| 18-6873 |
Angela Armenta v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Is the absence of evidence probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-6814 |
Patricia Ann Gerald, et al. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence free-speech police-misconduct standing |
Whether the officer's actions in refusing to allow the petitioners to view the video recording of the incident and denying their request for legal cou… |
| 18-6791 |
Benjamin Bland v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses was violated |
| 18-6792 |
Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit erred in granting summary judgment for Indiana Bell despite finding that both parties submitted 'sparse… |
| 18-657 |
Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights |
Was petitioner deprived of a fair and meaningful opportunity to protect his property interest when he was denied the opportunity to access and examine… |
| 18-6786 |
Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings |
Whether the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determined the facts critical to a Confrontation Clause analysis of the introduction of a non-test… |
| 18-6750 |
Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment |
Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestitying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-648 |
Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea |
Whether a law enforcement officer violated substantive-due-process rights by recklessly gathering unreliable evidence |
| 18-6728 |
Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent… |
| 18-6726 |
Billy Brantley v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Where the State must present 'some' evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process… |
| 18-6691 |
Delilah McCurtis v. Maggie Burke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-consistent-statements prior-inconsistent-statements witness-testimony |
Where petitioner was denied a fair trial due to the introduction of prior inconsistent statements |
| 18-6697 |
Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where… |
| 18-6651 |
Antonio Cobb v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure |
Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing… |
| 18-6654 |
In Re Gary Ray Debolt |
|
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is it in violation of the fifth Amendment and Brady v. Maryland to convict a person with the use of false and manipulated evidence? |
| 18-6655 |
Andrew John Miller v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence preliminary-examination right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of a Preliminary Examination transcript violated the Petitioner-Appellant's 6th Amendment right to confront the witness |
| 18-6678 |
Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's Certificate of Appealability under the law |
| 18-6615 |
Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events |
Whether Ritey was denied his 6th Amendment right to have his jury assessed with instructions on the application of legal principles to the evidence an… |
| 18-6616 |
Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s… |
| 18-6619 |
Dominic C. Robinson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but the text you've provided appears to be incomp comprehensible text of a SCOTUS petition garbled I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." or unreadable. Without a clear appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence jury-instructions miranda-rights standing |
Whether jury instruction 5/4A was improper? |
| 18-6634 |
Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony |
Is there a right to outgoing mail in the First Amendment? |
| 18-6636 |
James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al… |
| 18-6613 |
Hector R. DeJesus v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissible-evidence civil-procedure declaration evidence judgment-as-matter-of-law material-fact material-facts motion perjury summary-judgment sworn-declaration |
Did the defendants show there were no material issues in dispute and that they were entitled to judgment as a matter of law? |
| 18-574 |
Joseph Rachal v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence |
Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de… |
| 18-6542 |
Mauricio Licea v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dual-role due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness trial-procedure |
Whether district courts must give a dual-purpose jury instruction after a law enforcement officer testifies as both an expert and a percipient witness |
| 18-6531 |
Tyler G. Eppes v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error |
Was this an error? |
| 18-6546 |
Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i… |
| 18-6485 |
Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to give the jury a limiting instruction after permitting character and propensity evidence |
| 18-530 |
Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel |
First Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law |
In ordinary trust and property disputes, does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admissib… |
| 18-6426 |
Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners |
Whether the Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) requirement for state prisoners to exhaust the state court remedy when applying to a section… |
| 18-6406 |
Daniel Tappen v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a defense attorney renders ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-6371 |
Tyrell Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility criminal-procedure evidence jury-instructions mistrial prior-conviction |
Whether a mistrial should have been declared after the prosecutor improperly introduced evidence of the defendant's prior federal conviction where the… |
| 18-491 |
Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure |
Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… |
| 18-6355 |
Christian Dominique Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination |
| 18-6368 |
Dean Edward Calhoun v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection evidence standing state-law texas-criminal-justice |
Whether the Texas criminal justice system violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying them due process, equal protection, and access to… |
| 18-6336 |
Chamontae Walker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty |
Is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty to disclose evidence favorable to the accused if the defense could obtain the evidence throug… |
| 18-6341 |
John William Lieba, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba? |
| 18-6305 |
Igor Polshyn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence reversal right-to-testify structural-error testimony |
Whether preventing a defendant from testifying on the sole disputed element of an offense, his subjective intent, amounts to structural constitutional… |
| 18-6307 |
Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record |
When unacceptable insufficient evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does 'harmless error'… |
| 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 |
| 18-6265 |
Samuel Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 |
Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un… |
| 18-6273 |
Antoine Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… |
| 18-6245 |
Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. |
Alabama |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing |
Whether Raymond Lofer vs Wonton, and Negligence |
| 18-426 |
Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-procedure arnett-v-kennedy codd-v-velger due-process evidence meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard notice notice-of-termination personnel-records privacy-act privacy-act-5-usc-552a-e-5 third-party-verification |
Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in its rulings on the Privacy Act's verification requirement and the due process right to a meaningful opportunity to b… |
| 18-414 |
Carl M. Burnett v. Panasonic Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 analog-signal civil-procedure digital-data digital-signal electromagnetic-signal electronic-data evidence patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 subject-matter-eligibility tangible-embodiment |
Whether electronic data is the tangible embodiment of an electromagnetic analog or digital signal and is therefore patent-eligible subject matter |
| 18-6176 |
Michael Lucero v. California |
California |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 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… |
| 18-6152 |
M. E. D. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-endangerment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions other-wrongs-evidence second-degree-child-endangerment victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Did the trial court violate petitioner's right under the due process clause to a fair trial when the court failed to instruct the jury properly on a k… |
| 18-6159 |
Charlise Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count |
Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated? |
| 18-401 |
Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution |
What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi… |
| 18-6124 |
Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony |
| 18-6105 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights |
Was the petitioner denied an impartial tribunal under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-5988 |
Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing |
Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion |
| 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 … |
| 18-5999 |
Joe Litton Bailey v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence habitual-offender jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was the evidence presented to the jury sufficient to convict Bailey beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-5956 |
James E. Whitney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence patent search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t… |
| 18-5938 |
Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence |
Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with the… |
| 18-5916 |
Juan Flores v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception |
Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat… |
| 18-5885 |
Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal |
Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light most fa… |
| 18-270 |
Damian Phillips v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture civil-procedure due-process evidence lujan-test procedural-standing standing summary-judgment third-party-evidence |
Whether a claimant in a civil forfeiture proceeding has established sufficient Article III standing to withstand summary judgment and proceed to trial |
| 18-5747 |
Javier Amador-Flores v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony |
When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's… |
| 18-5810 |
Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
Violation of all constitutional rights, illegal sentence and detention |
| 18-5824 |
James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-250 |
Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination |
Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants? |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the District Court failed to grant Petitioner's motion for acquittal due to insufficient evidence of knowledge of fraudulent SNAP transactions |
| 18-5736 |
Joshua Moses v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiplicitous-indictment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Prosecutor's conduct in charging petitioner with a multiplicitous indictment to gain a tactical advantage so infected the trial with unfai… |
| 18-5751 |
William Burke v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy |
At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'? |
| 18-5757 |
Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing |
Whether the petitioner's federal constitutional claims were properly presented and preserved for review by the lower courts |
| 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) |
| 18-5712 |
Jerome A. Christmon v. B&B Airparts, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process errata-sheets evidence jury-trial procedural-error summary-judgement summary-judgment uncertified-deposition |
whether-summary-judgement-based-on-uncertified-deposition-is-admissible |
| 18-221 |
Carl Mouton v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence |
Whether application of the Arkansas rape shield rule and statute to prevent Mouton from presenting evidence of a sexual relationship between the accus… |
| 18-5646 |
Syrus Martin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements |
Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child |
| 18-5664 |
Chan Cheeseboro v. Little Richie Bus Service, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
accident-report civil-procedure deposition discovery district-court due-process evidence false-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing witness witness-testimony |
Why the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York would allow the law firm of Lewis Bris Bois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. allowed … |
| 18-5614 |
Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation |
Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… |
| 18-5639 |
Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the government commit prosecutorial misconduct and was counsel ineffective for failing to object or move to exclude GX-DC-2 |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the evide… |
| 18-5609 |
Michael Alexander LaJeunesse v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct shower-curtain |
Whether the lower court erred in its analysis of the issues raised in the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 18-5625 |
Arrion Lee Crew, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense self-defense voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the trial court prejudicially erred in failing to instruct on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter |
| 18-5604 |
Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas… |
| 18-5566 |
David Librace v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Social Security Administration |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence residency standing witness-protection |
Whether the lower court erred in excluding evidence that was relevant to the petitioner's case |
| 18-5557 |
Matthew Joseph Bussing v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the court abused its discretion in permitting a rebuttal witness who was not an expert in pediatric child abuse to testify outside his compete… |
| 18-5564 |
Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video |
Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |
| 18-176 |
Conestoga Trust Services, LLC, as Trustee of the Conestoga Settlement Trust, dated May 1, 2010 v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure direct-evidence disinterested-witness evidence judicial-discretion material-fact material-facts nonmovant reasonable-jury reasonable-jury-standard summary-judgment witness-credibility |
Whether a court may weigh and discredit direct evidence from a disinterested witness that would prove a material fact, under the guise of applying the… |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring … |
| 18-5505 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment |
When Martinez v. Ryan applies to a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, should the petitioner be entitled to application of Martinez… |
| 18-5511 |
Michael John Tarvin v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence false-imprisonment innocence-claim standing successive-petition |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's application, when the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitioner's motion … |
| 18-5513 |
My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the district court's judgment due to the state's failure to timely provide repla… |
| 18-5447 |
David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the presumption of innocence and burden of proof requirements are unconstitutionally repealed in enhancement cases, requiring the defendant to… |
| 18-5470 |
Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence |
Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … |
| 18-5427 |
Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony |
Whether witness testimony about a rape committed by someone other than the defendant during a kidnapping creates prejudice that cannot be overcome by … |
| 18-5412 |
Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can a state's highest court uphold a criminal conviction after being made aware that there was absolutely no evidence presented at trial that the crim… |
| 18-143 |
Sandra Lee Bart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence |
Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |
| 18-5394 |
Casey Peebles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment |
Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron… |
| 18-5336 |
Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the petitioner under the restrictions of OV-1 and OV-2 of the Michigan Sentencing Guidelines in violation … |
| 18-105 |
Modesta R. Sabeniano v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review perjury |
Whether petitioner Sabeniano was denied her constitutional right to due process |
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a rational jury could have found each essential element of the offense of transmitting a malicious code, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5… |
| 18-5332 |
Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search |
Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… |
| 18-5299 |
Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts |
Was LR found guilty at trial, when the transcripts of pre-trial clearly show she said nothing happened sexually? |
| 18-5286 |
Odere Suleitopa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony |
Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the… |
| 18-5301 |
Cahlan Clay v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination |
Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… |
| 18-5281 |
Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defendants and admit them into evidence |
| 18-5253 |
Dennis DeCiancio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud |
Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there… |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l… |
| 18-74 |
Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations |
Does the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine permit the NCUA to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative defenses, and federal law? |
| 18-5201 |
Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens |
| 18-5170 |
Ijaz Khan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized? |
| 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 |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A… |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due… |
| 18-5030 |
Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority |
Whether Boukin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), is a Constitutional Rule of Court, mandated on the District Court or merely the exercise of its superv… |