| 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… |