district-court-error

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5134 Nathan G. Flemming v. Taurean James, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-error due-process jury-influence procedural-default remmer-claim sentencing-delay 1. Did the District Court Error in finding that the Presence of defendant for sentencing was not a violation of Due Process? 2. Did the District Cour…
23-7622 Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence 1. Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement? 2. Did the district court error in not granting the petit…
23-6560 Cole A. Wolak v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing WHEIHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONVICTING PETITIONER FOR BOTH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND FOR RECEIPT AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAP…
22-7273 Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails…
21-7034 Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a conviction for Hobbos Act Robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.3 4BI.2(a).? 2) Whether the D…
21-6390 Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh…
21-5070 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability district-court-error eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate prima-facie prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in denying…
20-8389 Asa Lea, aka Asa Lorenzo-Lamiyah Lea v. United States District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error exclusionary-rule illegal-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure tangible-evidence 1. Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Lea's Motion to Suppress Illegal Tangible Evidence? 2. Whether the District Court erred by denying…
20-7705 Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the distric…
20-7006 Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi…
20-5533 Gayle McNamara v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review A defendant who has shown that the district court mistakenly deemed applicable an incorrect, higher Guidelines range has demonstrated a reasonable pro…
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 …
19-5844 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…
19-5465 Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida 2019-08-02 Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic…
18-8107 Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
18-6211 Pedro Rodriguez v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-error due-process exhaustion-of-remedies extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus paredes-v-atherton perez-v-ledesma prosecutorial-bad-faith standing younger-abstention younger-v-harris Whether the district court erred in failing to consider Petitioner's claim under the Abstention Doctrine, YOUNGER-V-HARRIS
18-5953 Antowan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-error due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial search-suppression sixth-amendment witness-testimony Should the district court's denial of a new trial or evidentiary hearing due to counsel's failure to interview witnesses and call additional witnesses…
18-5062 Norman L. Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner as a career offender when the offenses used to enhance the sentence were aged and not co…