double-jeopardy

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25-6769 In Re David J. Gottorff 2026-02-10 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment Question 1. Whether the arrest and prosecution of the Petitioner in Ouray District Court case 2022 CR 8 was in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512(d)…
25A871 Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge Ohio 2026-02-03 Application double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause Question not identified.
25-6666 Daniel Carlos Garcia v. Chad Bianco, Sheriff, Riverside County, California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim double-jeopardy habeas-petition penal-code younger-abstention 1. Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's habeas petition on Younger abstention grounds without addressing the threshold question…
25-6568 James Dorelus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy drug-trafficking firearm-offense safety-valve sentencing-reduction Where a defendant pleads guilty to the crime of carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 USC § 924(c)(…
25-6477 Warren Harold Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was…
25-6444 Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-30 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p…
25-6379 Kevin Ogden v. George Stephenson, Warden, et al. New Mexico 2025-12-16 Pending IFP constitutional-rights corrections-department disciplinary-procedures double-jeopardy legal-process witness-treatment Does the State of N.M. practice illegal Law violating the N.M. Corrections Department and its facilities? Does the State of N.M. commit fraud by fili…
25A694 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2025-12-15 Application apprendi-line criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habitual-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Maxwell A. Matthew's Convening Authority ordered his court-martial conviction expunged. He then ordered SSgt Matthew to again fa…
25-5956 In Re Santos Cuevas 2025-10-24 Dismissed IFP constitutional-remedy double-jeopardy judicial-estoppel post-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. May the Sixth Amendment in retroactive by the state allow remedy to initial and successive post-conviction proceedings, if so, may the right to ef…
25-5921 Frederick L. Brewer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25A445 Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-17 Application criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes a defendant from being convicted of two separate offenses arising from the same cr…
25-5880 Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification "What constitutes the legal meaning of the word "Active"? Does a Double Jeopardy Violation, and Due Process Violation Occur Whenever a Dept. of Corre…
25-407 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-06 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived double-jeopardy government-misconduct implied-consent mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct strict-scrutiny I. What constitutes implied consent to a mistrial when determining if a defendant has forfeited a Double Jeopardy claim? II. Does strict scrutiny app…
25-5786 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review I. Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and then rigidly applying a post-conviction custody re…
25A341 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review courts-martial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice trial-record Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a military court from retrying a service member for the same offenses after a defe…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio 2025-09-16 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, …
25-5654 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment Because harmless-error review of Erlinger error typically requires appellate judges to evaluate facts outside the record of conviction for the charged…
25-5500 Clarence C. Roland, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-admission fair-trial separate-sovereigns 1. Whether eliciting the fact and details of a defendant's conviction in a separate sovereign —including that it was for the same conduct and that the…
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction 1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a prior judge and/or the…
25-5405 Lamont Coleman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25-5401 Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-08-19 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial (1) DOES THE OKLAHOMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS' DECISION IN THE INSTANT CASE CONTRADICT THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTR…
25-5383 Oscar Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo…
25-181 Arthur Lopez v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. California 2025-08-14 Denied civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection registration-fees unlawful-seizure Should the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles and the other defendants in this case be accountable for deprivation of Civil Rights (incl…
25-5310 Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity 1. Why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Matter of Rooker-Feldman Provision not overrulin…
25-5281 Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error I. "When a State court judgment is shown that counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation including pre-trial, trial phas…
25-104 Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant 1. Plaintiff submits agreement to the court that was used to set the Counter claim for the defendant... The plaintiff notes in the order from the j…
25A114 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete double-jeopardy fifth-amendment governmental-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal retrial when a mistrial was sua sponte declared due to government misconduct over the defendant's o…
25-76 Carolyn Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process post-release-punishment sentence-recall Carolyn Jackson fully completed her sentence of 40 months' incarceration plus supervised release. More than four and a half years after being released…
25-84 Owolabi Salis v. Jorge Dopico, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process separation-of-powers state-immunity The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution provides that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." This is e…
25-5168 John E. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t…
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether consecutive sentences for two alternative pleadings of the same aggravated assault statute violate double jeopardy principles, and whether the…
24-7498 Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial after a conviction was vacated due to failure to present evidence on an essential element in ligh…
24-7439 In Re Terron Dizzley 2025-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c…
24-1279 Frank J. Anderson, Jr. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-06-16 Denied Relisted (2) criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-modification sixth-amendment Does the New Jersey judicial process of preparing a judgment of conviction in the petitioner's absence, departing from the orally pronounced sentence,…
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Whether multiple convictions and sentences under a single statutory provision of Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 for simultaneous conduct violate the Double Jeopa…
24-7385 Luster Pernell Burns, Jr. v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fair-trial mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor engage in intentional misconduct in a previous trial which goaded the defense into moving for a mistrial, which barred retrial in t…
24-7373 Natnael Zemene v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment second-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause protects an individual from subsequent prosecution when insufficient evidence was produced to reb…
24-1252 Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency Oregon 2025-06-06 Denied civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights Whether civil forfeiture of property constitutes criminal punishment under the Double Jeopardy Clause and whether United States v. Ursery remains cons…
24A1181 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
24-7183 James Little v. United States District of Columbia 2025-05-12 Denied Relisted (5)IFP appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing Should this Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case for further consideration of the government's pending motion to d…
24-7017 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Texas Texas 2025-04-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus Can a State allow a Judgment & Sentence of Conviction to stand when the offense was factually and legally impossible to have been committed or lacks l…
24-1048 Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response Waived acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict retrial Whether a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision by a jury that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty constitutes an acquittal pr…
24-6899 In Re Samuel Rivera 2025-03-31 Dismissed IFP constitutional-protection double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus supreme-law writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court and appellate court improperly dismissed the petitioner's habeas corpus writ under 28 U.S.C. §2241 by converting it to §225…
24-6883 Kenneth Karlston Newsome v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process international-human-rights life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether a person's right to be presumed innocent is denied by conclusory assertions of guilt before trial, and whether life imprisonment violates due …
24-6871 Diego J. Jimenez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process judicial-bias jury-instructions structural-error Whether a bias and partial Judge that was recused before trial created a Structural Error when presiding over a criminal defendant's case, whether fra…
24-6852 Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-26 Denied IFP double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause and Sixth Amendment Rights during sentencing and plea negotiations involving…
24-958 Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge Whether, before remanding for retrial, the Double Jeopardy Clause requires an appellate court to resolve a preserved sufficiency challenge applying th…
24-902 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict Must a defendant arguing double jeopardy preclusion prove to a virtual certainty that an issue was decided by the jury in the first trial?
24-6533 Jon Anthony Schweder v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statute-of-limitations Whether a criminal defendant can challenge the jurisdiction of a trial court on constitutional grounds after failing to raise such arguments in prior …
24-6488 Jordy Ezequiel Ochoa, aka Jordy Ezequil Ochoa-Cordova v. Robert Luna, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus jury-trial mistrial probation-violation Is it a violation of clearly established federal law under the Double Jeopardy clause to allow a court to declare a mistrial based on a hung jury, hol…
24-6339 Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession licensure-requirement second-amendment Whether the right to keep and bear arms, due process, double jeopardy, and licensure requirements prohibit retrial of a defendant on firearms possessi…
24-6338 Hakeem-Ali Shomo v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-intent QP: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when judicial misconduct leads to a defense-requested mistrial, even without specific intent to provok…
24-6318 Marcus Crowder v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment malice-murder Whether the state of Georgia violates the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause when indicting in multiplicity offenses arising from a single act o…
24-6288 Jose Estrada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split citizenship-status double-jeopardy identity-fraud passport-application perjury Whether the government improperly sought to relitigate ultimate facts previously determined by a jury in a prosecution involving identity and citizens…
24A676 Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment, due process clause, and Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy prohibit retrial of a defendant on firearms p…
24-6237 Charles Edward Harris, Jr. v. Whitney Gass, et al. Arkansas 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-statute double-jeopardy fifth-amendment legislative-intent punishment-interpretation Whether Harris was twice put in jeopardy for one uninterrupted criminal episode under two separate statutes that punish the same conduct without a cle…
24-6160 Benjamin Escobedo v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied IFP appeal-review constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying Escobedo's constitutional rights and ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
24-6167 Rodney J. Lass v. Chris Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mistrial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Whether actual vindictive prosecution can be established when a mistrial is declared and additional charges are brought, and whether an unsworn statem…
24-6104 Maurice Kerrick, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process maximum-term sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when he is never informed that he may be sentenced to an additional term of imprisonment for vio…
24-6098 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law in criminal resentencing, and whether cons…
24-550 Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation Whether the term 'offense' in the double jeopardy provision of extradition treaties refers to underlying conduct or elements of crimes
24A475 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete ashe-standard double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion jury-verdict preponderance-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes retrial of a defendant on a bribery charge after a jury's initial rejection of tha…
24-5893 Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Whether courts should assess the degree of difference or overlap between charged conspiracies to determine a double jeopardy violation
24-5780 Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether multiple convictions and sentences for possessing one loaded firearm violate the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause
24-5774 Dwayne Barrett v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-17 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), and whether Hobbs Act robbery quali…
24-5737 Matt Jones, aka Mack Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal motion-to-suppress speedy-trial Whether the Third Circuit erred in not reversing the District Court's failure to dismiss an indictment based on alleged double jeopardy and speedy tri…
24-5723 Terrell Trammell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard circuit-split double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms-possession second-amendment Whether § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under Bruen and violates the Second and Fifth Amendments' protections against double jeopardy
24A299 Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-convictions double-jeopardy incidental-restraint kidnapping state-law Whether a criminal defendant's kidnapping convictions violate double jeopardy principles when based on incidental restraint under New Mexico state law
24-317 Tommy Lee Benton v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived double-jeopardy ends-of-justice judicial-discretion manifest-necessity mistrial-standard trial-court-discretion Whether a trial judge must consider all viable alternatives to a mistrial before finding manifest necessity exists
24-5565 In Re Francisco Nunez Carrillo 2024-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy punishment-limits single-act-doctrine statutory-construction Whether a person convicted of a single act can be subjected to multiple punishments under congressional statutes and if such punishment violates const…
24-5468 Dennis L. Flint v. Florida Florida 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy precedent resentencing sentence-enhancement Whether a sentence can be enhanced during resentencing without violating double jeopardy principles
24-5459 In Re Raul Chavez 2024-09-04 Denied IFP article-iii-jurisdiction constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus speedy-trial Whether lower courts can delay and deny habeas corpus access while maintaining constitutional adherence to privilege guarantees
24-5427 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement Whether the district court violated constitutional rights by denying relief on indictment charges, charging the same crime across multiple indictments…
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent?
24-5286 Kenneth Rose v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-amendment criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review precedent-application statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court improperly disregarded Simpson v. U.S. precedent by assuming Congressional amendment of 18 U.S.C.A. § 924(c) in 1984 overrode …
24-5287 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal double-jeopardy federal-law jury-determination legal-proceedings record-review Whether the Supreme Court must review the record truth of a federal double jeopardy acquittal from 2009 in light of subsequent proceedings
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
24-5200 Victor Tavares v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Does the case violate the Sixth Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution?
24-32 Donavan J. White Owl, aka DJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eighth-circuit implied-consent manifest-necessity mistrial waiver Whether implied consent is valid consent to waive double jeopardy protections, and if so, what qualifies as implied consent?
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief Due process-violation
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
23A1133 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit finality jury-verdict sex-trafficking Whether a jury's verdict becomes final for double jeopardy purposes when the verdict is announced in open court, is unanimous, and no juror has regist…
23-7768 Leonard Williamson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the district court from considering conduct of which Mr. Williamson was acquitted by the jury when cal…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel?
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion?
23A1073 Jeremiah Wooden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a retrial when a change in law renders the original trial evidence insufficient to support a conviction
23-7585 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-05-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process factual-allegations legal-procedure multiple-convictions multiple-counts Does a state violate due process or double jeopardy principles when it charges and convicts a defendant on multiple, identical counts, with none conne…
23-7575 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-culpability double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment rule-404(b) trial-procedure unrelated-charges Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the introduction of acquitted criminal conduct under Rule 404(b) in a separate trial wh…
23A1055 Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Presumed Complete aggravated-identity-theft double-jeopardy enumerated-offense fifth-amendment plea-agreement wire-fraud Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars conviction for both aggravated identity theft and wire fraud when wire fraud serves as the p…
23A1035 Dedric Dixon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy felony-murder ineffective-assistance jury-verdicts Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when he is convicted of felony murder after being acquitted of intentional murder ba…
23-7476 Julius Jerome Walker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct registration-requirements Whether the District court in Muskogee county denied me my fundamental rights because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
23-7481 Maurice Owen Wiley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms firearms-possession hobbs-act Does the imposition of consecutive punishments for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of a crime…
23-7405 In Re Patrick Christian 2024-05-07 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy completed-sentence court-interpretation double-jeopardy legal-precedent lower-court-errors probation recidivism retroactive-punishment sentencing When is Punishment Retroactive?
23-7373 Giovanni DePalma v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim
23-7343 Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights Can an American citizen be punished for exercising the right to a jury trial?
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 207.010 violates the due process clause of the Federal Consti…
23-7265 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment Whether acquitted conduct or dismissed conduct pursuant to a plea can be argued and considered at sentencing
23-7242 Juan Avendano v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause are violated by multiple, factually identical counts of the same statutory offense using…
23-7207 Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the trial Court Committed reversible error in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on self-defense and necessity, even though…
23A907 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete carbon-copy-indictment constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sixth-amendment Whether a state violates a defendant's due process and double jeopardy rights by charging and convicting a defendant on multiple, identically worded c…
23-7083 Orlando Kim Ferguson, II v. Missouri Missouri 2024-03-27 Denied IFP article-i-section-19 constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process missouri-constitution oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct retrial Is the Missouri Constitution Article I; Section 19; limiting Double Jeopardy rights on retrial following intentional prosecutorial misconduct under Or…
23-7089 Steven L. Lewis v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-venue mistrial retrial speedy-trial venue Whether the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue
23-7067 In Re Timothy Stratton 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing Whether a defendant may be charged to find guilty where all of the necessary elements of a crime are not included in the jury's charge
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double-jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally-defaulted
23-1036 Robert John Dodd v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
23-6954 Charles B. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
23-6834 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions?
23-6794 Isaac Cardona v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine whether-the-promotional-money-laundering-provision-violates-due-process
23-6802 Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) encompasses out-of-court statements that go beyond the exciting event, are elicited by questioning, and are in…
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 Whether there is an exception to the Burks v. United States holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial to allow the prosecution to…
23-6724 Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Does a defendant's guilty plea to an indictment charging multiple violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), unlawful firearm possession, waive his Double Jeop…
23A745 Donald J. Trump v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Dismissed Amici (10) criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy impeachment-clause official-acts presidential-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a former President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for official acts taken during his presidency and whether the Impeachment Ju…
23A720 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release conditions that a defendant claims violate double jeopardy protections can be challenged under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) witho…
23-6552 In Re Vincent Pisciotta 2024-01-24 Denied IFP arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation Can a conviction for 'using fire to commit a federal felony' be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a 'conspiracy to commit arson
23-6553 Danjuan Antonio McBride v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure directed-verdict double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in holding that the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was not violated
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 Whether the district court erred in convicting petitioner for both possession of child pornography and for receipt and distribution of child pornograp…
23-6446 William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding…
23A632 Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-development retrial second-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a retrial when the record from a first trial is insufficient to support a conviction based on a legal devel…
23-6424 Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h…
23-6408 Jade LaRoche v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
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
23-6377 Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida 2023-12-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution provides immunity from prosecution for a defendant who has already been punished for the same o…
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 Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence?
23-6262 Raymond Clyde Robideau v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-trial-waiver remand state-remand waiver Is a court required to obtain a renewed jury-trial waiver when the State amends its Aggravating Factor[s] after remand from State's Highest Court, and…
23-6263 Freddy Abad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis Whether the two §$§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single 'unit of prosectution
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity
23-6169 Juan Carlos Soto v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines Why does the Yeh Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Wmost Cases Where all of the appeal ant's Non-Frivolous Sentencing arguments are Not addressed by th…
23-6074 Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo…
23-6091 Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence under Florida Statute § 775.087(2)(a)1 when the defe…
23-6097 Montrez Duncan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and sentence on a count that was deemed uncon…
23-6069 Jeremie Saintvil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights Whether the two bank fraud subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are separate and distinct offenses that require charging in separate counts?
23-6054 In Re Christopher Thieme 2023-11-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-violation double-counting double-jeopardy due-process grouping multiple-punishment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does the application of a four-level sentencing enhancement constitute impermissible double counting in violation of the 5th Amendment's Due Process a…
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno's case is conflicting with Pirset Circuit precedents
23-6028 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's misconduct, including reversing the burden of proof, violating the defendant's due process rights, and denying the defendant…
23-6004 Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder constitute the 'same offense' under the Double Jeopardy Clause
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23-5922 Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest Whether the warrantless arrest, statute of limitation, double jeopardy, Eighth Amendment violation, and Fourteenth Amendment violation were properly a…
23-5899 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error double-jeopardy fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense manifest-constitutional-error sanabria-rule sanabria-v-united-states trial-termination Whether the district court violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment double jeopardy rights by placing him back in jeopardy under a lesser-included 'at…
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying Petitioner Hidalgo's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, improper joinder, and improper convictions?
23-5833 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and the …
23-5791 John Sherman Jumper v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing disgorgement double-jeopardy fifth-amendment kokesh-precedent kokesh-v-sec sentencing-enhancement Whether the prior disgorgement punishment precludes a criminal sentence or sentencing enhancement based on the same misconduct under the Double Jeopar…
23-5734 Lawrence Flack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement Whether Appellant counsel's Anders brief was inadequate where evidence exists that Appellant's Constitutional rights were violated, including double j…
23-5711 Mitchell D. Green v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissible-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-impartiality mistrial trial-rights Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a defendant to be retried after a mistrial was declared due to the jury hearing admissible evidence
23-5688 Angel Marie Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal Does a facially valid and credible good faith claim of a Double Jeopardy violation constitute a 'constitutionally impermissible factor' which cannot b…
23-5668 Maurice Bellamy v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment
23A257 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without…
23A234 Jerry Laza v. City of Palestine, Texas Texas 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete civil-to-criminal-conversion double-jeopardy due-process-protections quasi-criminal-proceedings reasonable-doubt structural-error Whether a state court may convert a civil proceeding into a quasi-criminal or penal proceeding on appeal without affording the defendant fundamental c…
23-5540 Michael Rinaldi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely
23-5517 Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-5442 Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness Whether it is unconstitutional to impose two separate strikes on Petitioner for the same act under two separate statutes
23-5434 Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o…
23-5416 Curtis Benjamin Hollingsworth v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action Does the federal courts have to consider States and individuals, acting in their official capacity and/or the authority of the States, do not violate …
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds constitutes a constitutional violation
23-5363 Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing Whether the U.S. Constitution allows the conviction of a U.S. citizen without an indictment
23-5339 Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation whether-an-unprecedented-legal-theory-of-receipt-is-unconstitutional
23-5281 Morris Scott Holmes v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by successive prosecutions for the same conduct, defective indictments, improper case ass…
23-5290 Littleton William Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(@) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo…
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record
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 Whether the defendant's plea agreement was invalid, and the defendant's conviction should be vacated, due to the defendant being incarcerated on an un…
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the government from prosecuting a defendant for the same offense after a court has previously denied the …
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error Whether principles of double jeopardy protect a defendant from successive prosecutions of inconsistent verdicts contrary to Powell's analysis
23-25 Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit overextended the holding of Ashcroft v. Iqbal such that § 1983 plaintiffs are unjustly deprived of an opportunity to cond…
23-5054 Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison Whether the Oklahoma state courts had jurisdiction to prosecute the petitioner after the federal court refused to hear the case and dismissed the char…
22-7880 Maylesha S. Lewis v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger blockburger-test criminal-prosecution diaz-exception diaz-v-united-states double-jeopardy driving-under-the-influence fifth-amendment motor-vehicle-homicide Is Diaz v. United States an exception to the double jeopardy rule announced in Blockburger v. United States?
22-7858 Wayne Anthony Aviles v. Captain Jason Kowalski Montana 2023-06-23 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process guardian-ad-litem ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sentencing Whether the Mentana, Tenth Judicial District court erred in finding Mr. Aviles guilty of Double Jeopardy by giving him 4 separate sentences
22-7815 Joseph Carl Stanley v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process habeas-review implied-consent judicial-norms mistrial ninth-circuit state-law Double-jeopardy-challenge
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-1185 Anthony James Scott v. Georgia Georgia 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mistrial mistrial-request prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Carroll County Superior Court and the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia err when they held that the Carroll County District Attorney's …
22-1177 Lindsay L. Lee v. New York New York 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct mistrial retrial Did the unwarranted declaration of a mistrial deprive the petitioner of her constitutional right to a fair trial?
22-7701 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction, the district court must resentence the defendant de novo on the remaining counts
22-7589 Troy G. Saxton v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brown-v-ohio certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy drug-possession habeas habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists spatial-units Whether a habeas petitioner satisfies his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) for the issuance of a certificate of appealability
22-7577 Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts
22-7561 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2023-05-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority Legality of 15-year state prison sentence following probation violation
22-7509 Gary R. Thompson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-violation criminal-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-dixon Does the double jeopardy protection still hold the promise and guarantee of the prohibition and protection from being twice placed in jeopardy for the…
22-7501 Leon Caril, II v. Washington Washington 2023-05-09 Denied IFP appeals-process criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-witness-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-errors sentencing-errors sentencing-review sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the issues raised regarding double jeopardy, ineffective assistance of counsel, improp…
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super.1989) Court Or…
22-7452 Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) define a single offense or two separate and divisible offenses?
22-1059 Jorge Marc Gonzalez-Betancourt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture collateral-estoppel controlled-substances double-jeopardy exhaustion fifth-amendment ruan-v-united-states state-prosecution Is Florida violating federal rights of its prisoners by preventing a defendant from arguing collateral-estoppel, claiming-exhaustion?
22-7311 Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida Florida 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment Does a ten-count conviction under the same statute for a single act of filing one document violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment p…
22-7296 Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition Did the Sentencing Court give Petitioner a Substantively Reasonable Sentence?
22-7257 Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r…
22-985 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run consecu…
22-7154 In Re James C. Winding 2023-03-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy due-process due-process-violation jurisdiction kidnapping sexual-battery Whether Petitioner's Indictment Lacked the Charge of Kidnapping and Sexual Battery for Which Petitioner was Convicted, Adams County had No Jurisdictio…
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit QUESTION(S) PRESENTED
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit Did the appeals court for the Third Circuit err by denying petitioners certificate of appealability where appellate counsel rendered ineffective assis…
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-7064 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions Whether the state court's denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus on double jeopardy grounds, where the defendant was reindicted for the same offen…
22-7021 Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the district court err…
22-6905 Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the district court from entering judgment on only one of the multiple counts of conviction when the jury …
22-6878 Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief Could the theft of a defendant's substantive and procedural right to due process be so egregious that it would bar a future federal prosecution?
22-6871 Ahmed Khalil v. New York New York 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing speedy-trial Whether the prosecutor's acknowledgment that the petitioner was merely charged with felony and misdemeanor charges, but not convicted, should have pre…
22-6833 James Floyd v. Texas Texas 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing goading mistrial trial-rights Does a goading-style Double Jeopardy violation bar further retrial even where the trial court had granted a mistrial on an independent ground?
22-6796 Marty Allen Owens v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied IFP cherokee-nation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-membership Did the McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) decision embrace the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §1153(a), to the Territory of the State Of Oklahoma…
22-6753 Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado Colorado 2023-02-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's right to a fair and impartial trial was violated due to juror misconduct
22-6736 Justin D. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Relisted (8)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-6727 Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Legality of multiple judgments and double jeopardy
22-6706 Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a …
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the verdict form agreed upon by the jury failure to specify 'GUILTY' as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of Guilt?
22-721 Damian McElrath v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (7) acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts Does the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted?
22-6665 Orlando Cortez-Nieto and Jesus Cervantes-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses post-trial-convictions sua-sponte Whether a court may sua sponte enter post-trial convictions on lesser-included offenses that the jury had no authority to return
22-700 Mark Howerton v. Texas Texas 2023-01-26 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct Should the Court's holding in Oregon v. Kennedy be extended to prohibit a wider range of prosecutorial intent?
22-6617 Winsloe Duhaney v. United States District of Columbia 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Does an appellate court violate Double Jeopardy when it remands a case for the trial court to enter alternative findings of fact and conclusions of la…
22-6576 Phillip Tarver v. Keisha Fisher, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Was the petitioner deprived of due process and the right to trial by jury, and is the right not to be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime charged…
22-6444 Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a conviction for federal 'second degree murder' under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
22-6408 Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority Whether a state court can impose a sentence to commence at the completion of a federal sentence in the absence of statutory authority
22-6374 Damian Perry v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the application of Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution therefore removing any practi…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional
22-6377 Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida Florida 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits Whether the court had jurisdiction to re-sentence the petitioner to 18 years after initially sentencing him to 10 years
22-6386 Frank Sanchez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
22-6359 Leonid Gershman v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same…
22-6364 Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2022-12-21 Dismissed IFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-6258 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilated-crimes assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment houston-v-moore separate-sovereign-doctrine Whether a defendant previously acquitted of murder under a state statute can be tried for the same murder under the same state statute pursuant to a f…
22-6245 Wade Plair v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct tampering-with-records Does intentional prosecutorial misconduct disqualify the trial court from pursuing a second prosecution of the same case?
22-6212 Eric Cain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (9)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment jury trial right or the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause bars a court from imposing a more severe criminal sentence base…
22-6164 Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas Texas 2022-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entry o…
22-6109 Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single additional special assessment of $5,000 or $5,000 for every qualifying conv…
22-6038 Gabriel Mangum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-751 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy escape-from-custody fifth-amendment residential-reentry-center statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether Petitioner's 5th Amendment Double Jeopardy rights were violated
22-5975 Donnie Earl Phillips, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-proceedings malicious-prosecution speedy-trial wrongful-imprisonment Does Fundamental Error, Plain Error, and Constitutional Error all coincide when depriving a person of a final judgment?
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Question not identified
22-5979 Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou…
22-5874 Dustin Nguyen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process final-order judicial-jurisdiction rules-of-construction void-judgment Did the panel err, violate statute or the public trust, when they failed to State their reasoning for deciding they had no jurisdiction?
22-5870 Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double jeopa…
22-5851 Siaosi Vanisi v. William Reubart, Acting Warden Nevada 2022-10-17 Denied IFP competency criminal-procedure double-jeopardy gross-negligence intent-requirement mental-competency oregon-v-kennedy self-representation Does gross negligence satisfy the intent requirement for double jeopardy?
22-5828 DeShaun Bullock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Relisted (10)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-5836 Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment is valid
22-5739 LaTausha Simmons v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-03 Denied IFP acquittal appeal circuit-court constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy insufficient-evidence jurisdiction michigan-supreme-court reconsideration Whether the Michigan Supreme Court erred in concluding that the prohibition against double jeopardy did not apply in this case
22-5719 Shannon Dewayne Reece v. Texas Texas 2022-09-29 Denied IFP aggravated-robbery criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-precedent witness-testimony Can a person be convicted of an offense even after the victim testifies that the defendant is not the person that assaulted or robbed them?
22-5712 Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Should the United States Court of Appeals for the [oth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability to the Petitioner Ramona Morgan?
22-5507 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard Whether a judge can dismiss the charges after finding the defendant guilty of a second-degree felony robbery charge
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Question not identified
22-118 Marquis Shaw v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Relisted (12) acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing violates the Jury Clauses or Due Process Clause
22-5239 Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize?
22-5185 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Federal …
22-5127 Edward Brown v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines Did the district court violate the petitioner's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
22-5139 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in failing to vacate the federal convictions for felon in possession of a firearm and a related acquittal
22-5106 Kalvin Lamar Washington v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-14 Denied IFP acquittal court-forms criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner jury-trial state-prosecution statutory-provisions Can the state of Michigan violate the protection against a second prosecution for the same offense after an acquittal by repeatedly the acquittal refe…
22-5083 William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
22-5100 Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal Whether there is a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a federal or state trial court rescinds…
21-8286 Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas Texas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the trial court proceedings constituted a mistrial that voided the 1984 judgment and sentence
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 Whether the New York courts erred in applying the 'opening the door' standard
21-8198 Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), a…
21-1576 Timothy J. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense
21-8190 Thomas Luczak v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether this Court should overturn its decision in United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (S.Ct. 1997), which holds that sentencing judges can consider …
21-8176 Marice Nalls v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-06-17 Denied IFP aggravated-rape armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prescribed-charge prescription simultaneous-trial Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial was violated
21-8143 Marcus Branch v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers Was the double-jeopardy clause violated?
21-1557 Dayonta McClinton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
21-8081 Moses Clark v. California California 2022-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by bringing the defendant before the magistrate within 48 hours after arrest
21-7996 George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue Where identical charges are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy rule based …
21-7998 Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement Plea-agreement-as-sole-evidence-for-conviction
21-7975 Amir Karim Beigali v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924-c consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum section-924c sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment prohibit a consecutive mandatory penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) when the second § 924(c) offense was …
21-7978 Patrick Clay Kunkel v. California California 2022-05-26 Denied IFP brady-violation confrontation-clause double-jeopardy due-process newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Where petitioner received a conviction for premeditated attempted murder and attempted manslaughter of two individuals, were such that petitioner was …
21-7959 Salito Marques Good v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction
21-7940 Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the District Court erred in disposing of Petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel surrounding the failure to litigate a v…
21-7932 Sameer Muhammad v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority Whether the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter an order reinstating the previous order vacating offense under double jeopardy principle des…
21-7898 Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada Nevada 2022-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada erred when it concluded that the petitioner was not prejudiced by cumulative error after the district court abando…
21-7830 Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct Whether the trial court erred in allowing the jury to convict the defendant on a lesser charge (misdemeanor) despite the indictment for a felony charg…
21-7773 Eric Middlebrook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for the…
21-7705 Nolan Woods v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-remedy re-prosecution Whether this Court will create a bright-line rule delineating that the only cure for a double jeopardy violation caused by dual convictions of the sam…
21-7686 Robert Maillet v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process sex-offender-registry supervised-release Question not identified
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to the class as pretrial d…
21-1317 Rafi Wali McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal constitutional-prohibition criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-finding jury-trial supervised-release Does the United States Constitution prohibit a judge from revoking supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583 based on a judicial finding that th…
21-7489 Raul Roy Vasquez v. Florida Florida 2022-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court-appeal double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict privileges-immunities procedural-law state-court-conflict two-year-limitation Whether the refusal of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida to address the certified conflict between the petitioner's Second District Court of A…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution When the State of Texas failed to elect which charging transaction of the offense the State was going to have Petitioner convicted under, did this res…
21-7376 Khalil Stafford v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-dismissal murder new-jersey rico rico-offense sixth-amendment state-law-prosecution vicar Does the Double Jeopardy Clause preclude a Federal jury from considering petitioner's guilt for murder under New Jersey law after a New Jersey jury ac…
21-7314 William Jones v. Texas Texas 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, prono…
21-7278 Calvin James v. John T. Wilcher, Sheriff, Chatham County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process federalism jurisdiction service-of-process summons Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive state and federal prosecutions for the same offense
21-7273 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Did the United Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of thi…
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21-7213 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial When does the direct appeal of a jury trial conviction of six (6) different criminal offenses and sentence become final?
21-7178 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2022-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-intolerance double-jeopardy due-process federalized-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-appellate-courts state-courts summary-orders systemic-inattentiveness Whether summary orders rejecting federalized claims have become constitutionally intolerable post-AEDPA
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 Whether the trial court erred in denying Mr. Muller's motion to withdraw his plea and vacate his conviction for delivery of a controlled substance cau…
21-7047 In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden 2022-02-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the U.S. District Court exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction
21-6968 Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016) afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. …
21-6948 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing-without resubmission to t…
21-6954 Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts
21-6895 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction Whether the lineup identification procedure employed violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and the right to effective assistance of co…
21-6851 Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure Did the defendant's conviction for first degree felony murder violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy?
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 Whether the governments need to secure court appearance outweigh the security of person from severe harms, mental and physical, due process and punish…
21-6834 In Re Hosea Jackson 2022-01-13 Denied IFP acquittal aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hobbs-act insufficient-evidence jeopardy judicial-precedent Whether judicial precedent concerning double jeopardy defines an acquittal to encompass any ruling that the prosecutions proof is insufficient to esta…
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-987 Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne…
21-6691 Aaron Hicks v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a court c…
21-911 Dan V. Sharp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-870 Michigan v. Treshaun Lee Terrance Michigan 2021-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ashe-v-swenson constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion jury-acquittal michigan-courts perpetrator-identity yeager-v-us Should issue preclusion apply in criminal cases?
21-6489 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-02 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme Does the trial judge have the authority to make the charge a first degree felony?
21-793 Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. Pennsylvania 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity
21-6349 Victor Hurns v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of petitioners' request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm…
21-740 Richard E. Paulus, M.D. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ethical-violations fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court government-misconduct Did the Sixth Circuit err in ruling it lacked jurisdiction to consider allegations of fraud upon the court and due process violations in evaluating a …
21-6263 Gary Aaron Coble v. David Anderson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-review self-incrimination supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights under the U.S. Constitution were violated by the state's refusal to allow him to remain silent at trial
21-6268 Cesar Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and …
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings Whether a state federal habeas petitioner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal a district court decision not arising from a …
21-6142 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-theft criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment indictment interstate-transportation jurisdiction money-laundering statute-of-limitations Whether the government was entitled to establish petitioner's guilt at trial for federal offenses it did indict by trial proof on a federal offense it…
21-6146 Keenan Rollerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o…
21-6110 Richard L. Starghill, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct retrial trial-integrity Do multiple mistrials, necessitated by jury misconduct, create a Double Jeopardy bar, preventing a retrial of a criminal defendant?
21-6102 Anthony B. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing Whether the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial requires the distribution of PCP and occasional quantity counts to be vacated
21-6012 Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-20 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability whether-the-courts-below-erred-by-upholding-the-trial-court's-determination-that-the-only-witness-to-petitioner's-purported-jailhouse-confession-was-u…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-5891 Archie Ned Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation Must the use of physical force required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant convict…
21-5894 Jeffrey Richard Martinson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-doctrine fifth-amendment new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-dismissal Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial where the trial court dismissed the case with prejudice for bad faith prosecutorial misconduct after g…
21-5896 Ilana Rigwan v. South Beach Bayside Condominium Association I, Inc. Florida 2021-10-05 Denied IFP case-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-protection safety-net Can you Amend The Double Jeopardy Clause?
21-5846 Luke W. Cain v. California California 2021-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-permissibility criminal-punishment double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent multiple-offenses multiple-punishments penal-code sentencing What punishments are constitutionally permissible?
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-5810 Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut…
21-5765 Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United …
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its …
21-5526 Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision Was the district court's findings that the state court reasonably applied the inconsistent verdict law in this case correct?
21-5494 In Re Eric W. Poirier 2021-08-26 Dismissed IFP attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Cou…
21-273 Buck Gene Brune v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing When does jeopardy attach after a guilty plea?
21-5459 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Whether the court has jurisdiction over the defendants, and whether the court of appeals order was a final decision and this petition was timely filed
21-5441 Brandon Mark Bjerknes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment article-1-section-3 constitutional-construction double-jeopardy executive-branch federal-government federal-lawmaking judicial-minimalism senate-representation state-representation Does the Senate's constitutional construction link state governments to the federal lawmaking process?
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-222 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing Whether the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense was violated
21-5349 Chris Allen Miller v. Jason R. Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court erred in denying the petitioner's due-process, civil-rights, criminal-procedure, jury-trial, double-jeopardy, prosecutorial-mi…
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence
21-176 David J. Tatara v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus judgment-of-acquittal mens-rea superseding-information Does a conviction of a crime submitted to the jury through a superseding information filed after jeopardy attached and after the court granted judgmen…
21-5308 Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony Is petitioner entitled to the Pennsylvania courts' clarifying interpretation of the witness intimidation statute, Pa.C.S.A.§4952, under which petition…
21-5286 Gerald M. Calmese v. Arizona Arizona 2021-08-04 Denied IFP conviction criminal-indictment double-jeopardy due-process essential-elements fraudulent-schemes indictment legal-sufficiency multiplicity sentencing-error Is there legally sufficient evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the required element for fraudulent schemes for which the petitioner was c…
21-5185 Lexton Pellew v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conviction-count criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-review sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-error Whether the convictions on counts 13-14 should be vacated due to erroneous jury instructions, given that the 10-year consecutive sentence was derived …
21-5161 Jamar J. Draper v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the petitioner should have effective counsel on imposed sentence by right
21-5164 Larry G. Coker v. Alabama Alabama 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the re-sentencing of the petitioner to 25 years, which exceeded the lawful sentence, violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusu…
21-5165 Robert Allen Custard v. Scott Crow, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment double-jeopardy due-process imprisonment legal-detention multiple-punishments united-states-constitution Whether a U.S. citizen can serve 14 years in prison without a sentence
21-5126 Kevin Tyrell Beach v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process irreparable-harm mistrial pro-se pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sanctions Does it constitute 'bad faith conduct' or 'abuse of discretion' when a judge denies a defendant's numerous pre-trial requests for 'stand-by' counsel
21-5127 Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland v…
21-60 Logan Brooks Drinkard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy greater-offense jury-verdict lesser-included-offense Whether constitutional double jeopardy principles prohibit a conviction on a greater offense when the jury found the defendant not guilty of a lesser …
21-5076 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process Whether the prior criminal proceeding violated the accused's due process rights
21-5065 Blake Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines a single offense or two (or more) separate and divisible offenses
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine conflicts with this Court's plain-error-jurisprudence
20-8446 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of the petitioner after the trial court's erroneous dismissal of the charge…
20-8422 Wayne Porter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and conclusions of facts from the Fourth Ci…
20-1776 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Breaking Ground, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied administrative-procedure agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process guardianship immigration-law intervention public-charge rule-making standing Whether States with interests should be permitted Question not identified
20-8272 Roberto Luis Rene Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights correction double-jeopardy due-process judgment-commitment judicial-correction life-liberty sentencing When a District Court vacates a sentence pursuant to RUTLEDGE v. UNITED STATES, is a correction of the defendant's judgment and commitment order requi…
20-8278 L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons Thrust in 'Criminal' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in Civil Court? When There's no …
20-1693 Erick Allen Osby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments
20-8218 George Verkler, aka Kenneth P. Goff, aka Neal T. Pearson, aka Neil T. Pearson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case double-jeopardy plea-bargain presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel unconstitutional-decision Does the presumption of innocence require a judge to rule in favor of the defendant if the judge will not read everything the defendant submits?
20-1652 Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award Do the statutory rules of the SEC violate the Double Jeopardy Clause and Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
20-8121 Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California California 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & 14th Amendment rights
20-8078 Calvin Lamont Mack v. Florida Florida 2021-05-20 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy enhanced-compound-felony federal-question judicial-discretion legal-precedent legislative-intent same-element-offenses state-court-review supreme-court-discretion Whether the state and federal constitutions were violated under the Double Jeopardy Clauses
20-1593 Devon E. Sanders v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause takes into account only the essential facts for establishing the elements of two offenses
20-7981 Stephen Nivens v. J. Phillip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights double-jeopardy duplicitous duplicitous-charging fifth-amendment jury jury-trial multiplicitous multiplicitous-charging Whether the Petitioner has a right to be free from Double Jeopardy
20-7986 Kevin Dunbar v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP attempted-first-degree-murder consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-weighing kidnapping self-representation supreme-court-precedent Whether the petitioner's aggravated sentences were in violation of due process and conflict with the United States Supreme Court holdings in Apprendi …
20-7963 Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when…
20-7961 Antonio Olmeda v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a Judgment and Conviction on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m…
20-7906 Gerald J. Silva v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-7873 Kenneth McBride v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-duress criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Whether a state can force a U.S. citizen to face criminal charges without the assistance of counsel
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
20-1498 Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response Waived alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor Whether the Illinois Appellate Court unreasonably applied Alleyne v. United States
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated
20-7867 Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-27 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes Does the Double Jeopardy Clause permit charging multiple 'status crimes' for a single criminal act?
20-7715 In Re Richard DeCaro 2021-04-12 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated
20-7723 Dangelo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit Did the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err when concluding that Davis adopted the goal of furthering or facilitating the crimi…
20-7672 James Michael Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury Whether the government may pursue an assault charge after a defendant pleads guilty to felony child abuse where the assault charge subsumes the pled p…
20-7637 Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing Can a state corrections arbitrarily change a defendant's prison sentence, nearly two decades later, even after having initially structured said court-…
20-7622 Merle Denezpi v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-provisions court-of-indian-offenses criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-agency indian-law jurisdictional-issue procedural-history tribal-court ute-mountain-ute-agency Is the Court of Indian Offenses of Ute Mountain Ute Agency a federal agency such that Merle Denezpi's conviction in that court barred his subsequent p…
20-1281 Byron Dredd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 18-usc-1519 18-usc-241 acquittal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy false-statements religious-communication trial-evidence Whether petitioner's acquittals on two counts should have been admitted into evidence in petitioner's retrial
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral procedures meet constitutional standards when they fail to provide prisoners the opportunity …
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
20-7400 Drashawn Bartlett v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 double-jeopardy felony-murder fifth-amendment harris-precedent harris-v-oklahoma robbery sixth-circuit Can the offense of robbery be included as an element in a felony murder instruction and also presented separately in a jury instruction for robbery wi…
20-7379 Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida Florida 2021-03-09 Denied IFP conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges Can a criminal defendant be charged and convicted with multiple conspiracies for a single continuous conspiracy act without violating right to be free…
20-7391 Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution and punishment for Felony-murder and Felonious-assault following an acquittal on Aggravat…
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit error by stating the Franses' rights were not violated and Rodolph requested, and by stating three flawed reasons fo…
20-7318 Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties whether-state-disproved-self-defense-beyond-reasonable-doubt
20-7283 John Larvie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty Whether tribal sovereignty can be ignored and a defendant punished despite not being convicted tribally
20-7257 Tito Knox v. Elizabeth G. Magera, U.S. Probation Officer, Individually and in Her Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the government's prosecution violated the Double …
20-7225 Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver…
20-7148 Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings Is it proper for the U.S. District Court to dismiss the motions for joinder filed by the defendants?
20-1122 Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-02-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L is unconstitutionally vague and violates the Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7139 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel substitute-counsel Whether the trial Court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Anderson's request for the appointment of substitute counsel and defense counsel's motion…
20-7072 Jean Denis Paul v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a juror …
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Question not identified
20-1039 Elizabeth Aviles-Wynkoop v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-employment federal-regulations fifth-amendment whistleblower Can the Federal Government violate a Federal Employee's 5th Amendment right by depriving a federal employee of his or her property right (job) without…
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized and successive
20-6848 Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing Was the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland correct in dismissing my habeas corpus petition?
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's test for determining whether two conspiracy prosecutions involve the same conspiracy renders the Double Jeopardy Clause in…
20-6803 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-conflict certiorari court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-precedent legal-compliance precedent supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the opinion below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States and Davis v. United States, and whether it adequately compli…
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned…
20-6669 Brian Zellner v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges Double Jeopardy Clause
20-6659 Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. California 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr…
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional?
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies Whether federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is available to criminal defendants challenging the legality of their confinement before exhausti…
20-6469 Hector Valentine v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing conduct rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision
20-6417 Edwin Omar Almonte-Nunez v. United States First Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2112 abuse-of-discretion counsel-substitution crime-of-violence double-jeopardy due-process party-presentation resentencing sentencing-review Did the district court adequately vet Mr. Almonte-Nufiez's dissatisfaction with his counsel?
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Double Jeopardy
20-6346 Demarcus D. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing Whether the RICO and drug conspiracy counts in the indictment are unconstitutionally vague, whether the evidence supports the crack cocaine distributi…
20-686 Michael Shock v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
20-6301 Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law Whether the consecutive imposition of a federal and state recidivism-enhanced sentence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha…
20-6154 Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution Whether Subsequent Prosecution of Conspiracies Violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution when Both Conspiracies Operate Und…
20-491 Sandy Perez Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2020-10-15 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter texas-law Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar conviction for intentional injury to a child following acquittal for capital murder, but convict…
20-5999 Sonya Porter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-crime criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plea-bargaining prosecution welfare-fraud Where a state criminal rule allows for dismissal of a case on the merits rather than via conviction or acquittal, is this sufficient to trigger protec…
20-5978 Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska Alaska 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search Whether the decisions of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution's protections against double …
20-5869 Michael Robert Everett v. Florida Florida 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-5823 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings Whether a pretrial petitioner may challenge his custody as in violation of the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, and whether this pretrial saf…
20-5799 Lorenzo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct
20-5719 Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-5693 In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure to reach a unanimous decision was not a failure on the jury's part was acquittal and the constitutio…
20-301 Timothy B. Hennis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-09-09 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment constitutional-provisions court-martial double-jeopardy due-process military-justice military-law state-court-acquittal state-jurisdiction Whether the offenses for which Petitioner was tried and acquitted in state court constituted offenses 'for which [he] cannot be tried in the courts of…
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-09-09 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law Where New Mexico's anti-waiver statute violates double jeopardy
20-5616 Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction if-defendant-not-competent-to-stand-trial
20-244 James Michael Fayed v. California California 2020-08-31 Denied double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness right-to-counsel separate-sovereigns silver-platter-doctrine sixth-amendment uncharged-allegations Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches on uncharged murder allegations
20-5540 Ugunda Giovanni Sanders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charge constructive-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct Did the Government violate Sanders's rights under the Fifth Amendment to have a grand jury consider the charge and to have the Government honor its im…
20-5516 Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim
20-5421 Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation Whether simple possession under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) is a legally permissible racketeering predicate incident under Fla. Stat. §§ 895.02(1)(a), 8…
20-5386 Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam…
20-162 Damon J. Claiborne v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-double-jeopardy administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process retroactive-enforcement retroactive-rule separation-decision separation-decisions statutory-authority Whether the Secretary violated departmental regulations that prohibited administrative double jeopardy
20-5355 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served?
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska 2020-08-11 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures Whether the decision of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals is consistent with the Fourteenth-Amendment, Sixth-Amendment, Fourth-Amend…
20-5254 Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop…
20-5158 Alexander J. Silvers v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights detention-challenge double-jeopardy due-process gerstein-v-pugh judicial-determination notice-to-defense probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion Whether a judicial determination of probable cause in the arrested offense legally justifies the state attorney filing additional charges
20-5164 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi…
20-5175 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-07-24 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a second criminal prosecution for the same offense after the first prosecution was dismissed without prej…
20-5135 James Bowell v. State Bar of California California 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum f…
20-5104 Justin Tapp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was subjected to multiple prosecutions and sentences for the same conduct
20-5016 Ashton Charles Butler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) define a single offense or two separate and divisible offenses?
20-5018 Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Did the courts apply SCOTUS precedent in Price v. Georgia and Strickland v. Washington correctly?
19-8915 Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether defendants' convictions under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) should be vacated
19-8886 Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. Arizona 2020-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records Did the trial court err in violating the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights, by failing to provide/produce the records and transcripts of the f…
19-8865 Alexander M. Schultz v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-06-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof charging-documents double-jeopardy imprecise-language same-offense successive-prosecutions For purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause, what is the proper test, and assignment of burdens, for determining whether two prosecutions are factually…
19-8837 Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range
19-1409 Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California California 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity Whether the court below erred in holding that 'extortion' was both the 'unlawful activity' and 'crime of violence' in Petitioner's conviction under 18…
19-8773 Quincy Harrison v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-22 Denied IFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm jurisdiction vehicle-theft Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause is violated
19-8751 Paramjit Singh Basra v. Washington Washington 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority appellate-remedy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-abuse state-judiciary statutory-duty Is it lawfully permissible for a State to convict a person twice for a single crime?
19-8687 Hamidreza Ghazavi v. Virginia Virginia 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice speedy-trial trespass-statute Whether the circuit court and upper courts violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by engaging in a conspiracy with corrupt federal agents, de…
19-8690 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether due process was circumvented
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re…
19-8629 Carpeah R. Nyenekor, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-falsification double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process false-affidavit prosecutorial-misconduct res-judicata search-warrant Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the federal government from re-indicting a defendant after a state court has dismissed the charges based …
19-8637 Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule the 'legislative override' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the trial court erred in not granting petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal
19-8573 David Konepachit v. California California 2020-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does ME Senate Bill 1343 violate the petitioner's due-process and equal-protection rights under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
19-8515 Michael Munday v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a 12-year upward departure sentence that violates due-process, double-jeopardy, reaso…
19-8485 Melvin T. Bell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals can exercise jurisdiction over the petitioner's interlocutory appeal before the imposition of an unconstitutional sentenc…
19-1293 Michael Ludwikowski v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic…
19-8387 Robert C. Caldwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute Whether sentencing defendants under both the Carjacking Statute and the Firearm Statute violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8342 Dearieus Duheart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence?
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York 2020-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses Whether issuance of the writ is agreeable to the usages and principles of law, whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important…
19-8227 Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-09 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l…
19-8160 Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation Did the Florida trial court violate the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against double jeopardy?
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the defendant was arrested without a warrant and whether the defendant's attorneys' actions were part of the case strategy
19-8148 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sovereignty standing territorial-jurisdiction venue Was the Federal court without jurisdiction because the cause did not constitute a Case, the court exceeded its authority, or venue?
19-8119 Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing Whether the conviction for a crime without proof of an essential element of that crime violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8082 Altius Willix v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment multiplicious-charges sixth-amendment structural-error Is an indictment considered duplicitous or multiplicious when it charges 2 counts occurring out of the same sequence or events that led to one episode…
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-1153 Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied 28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Limits on federal court jurisdiction to review state court judgments
19-8026 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial Does the petitioner in a habeas proceeding have an inherent constitutional right to be enlarged upon his personal recognizance in the interest of his …
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede…
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 Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance
19-7978 Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness Was the security clearance questionnaire unconstitutionally vague?
19-7944 In Re Steven Beebe 2020-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-order double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,united-states-v-di fifth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-developments legal-precedent probation probation-condition publish-opinion united-states-v-dixon Whether this Court should issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus
19-7917 Isaac Feldman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the gov…
19-7927 Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing the sentence was corrected by the written sentencing o…
19-7834 Travis Soto v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-courts fifth-amendment finality plea-bargaining constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-courts fifth-amendment finality jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause attaches to charges dismissed during a negotiated plea agreement
19-7843 Tony Buck v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-7796 Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr…
19-7703 Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing Question not identified
19-7603 Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights Whether the State may refuse to retry a successful habeas petitioner who has established a constitutional trial error by simply initiating proceedings…
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
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 Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered
19-7557 Lance Yarbough v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the con…
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t…
19-7479 Brian Price v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct
19-7433 Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection against double jeopardy is violated when a defendant is prosecuted and punished for a firearm possession offe…
19-7446 Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e…
19-7401 Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not
19-7348 Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York New York 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due process, double jeopardy, and malicious prosecution
19-7338 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms even…
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard
19-7215 Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty?
19-7155 Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 28 USC 2241's statu…
19-828 Charles Garske, et al. v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy government-misconduct manifest-necessity mistrial oregon-v-kennedy retrial united-states-v-perez Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution when the government caused the mistrial and it was entered over the defendant's objection
19-7010 Omar Folk v. Prime Care Medical, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-issues double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus mandate-stay rule-59(e) rule-60-motion standing third-circuit-appeal Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeal Judges applied the correct standard under Rule 60(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-6948 Michael Eugene Spry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the appellant Michael Eugene Spry's sentence was unreasonable as it was greater than necessary and as such, fails to comply with Title 18, Uni…
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2019-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t…
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount…
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness Is the legal definition of the term 'same transaction' unconstitutionally vague?
19-6894 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP ashe-v-swenson blockburger-v-united-states brown-v-ohio compounding-charges constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment pro-se-appellant successive-prosecution Whether State prosecuting an accused under pretense of successive prosecution based upon temporally distinct conduct from prior prosecution, and compo…
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Whether the essential principles of res judicata were departed from by the lower courts in allowing the prosecution to relitigate issues that were pre…
19-714 Pennsylvania v.William R. Landis, Jr. Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blueford-v-arkansas criminal-procedure diminished-capacity double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause lesser-included-offense mens-rea murder murder-charges poland-v-arizona precedent retrial Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania err in finding that the reinstatement of Murder in the Third Degree upon the award of a new trial violated the …
19-6806 Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida Florida 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification Whether the underlying felony is part of the crime charged to create a predicate felony that charge, cannot stand
19-6760 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment indictment indictment-modification polygamy polygamy-charge Whether a constructive amendment occurred at trial when the court found defendant guilty of multiple marriages, a charge not on the indictment, and wh…
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's sentence and re-impose a life sentence, violating double jeopardy?
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin…
19-6721 Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate…
19-6699 Andrew McWhorter v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal amended-charges charging-information criminal-procedure deadly-weapon double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment barred the State of Indiana from 'retrying' Petitioner
19-6684 Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution Does the failure to require a unanimous jury verdict on either charged or uncharged theories of prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment right to a ver…
19-6649 Alfred L. Brooks v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment dismissed-allegations double-jeopardy due-process extrajudicial-proceeding extrajudicial-proceedings parole parole-hearing plea-agreement Can state District Attorney's Office and/or California Board of Parole Hearings utilize Parole Consideration Hearings as extrajudicial proceedings to …
19-6632 Samier Patrick Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjected to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the criminal prosecution?
19-611 Rene A. Boucher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence?
19-605 Arizona v. Philip John Martin Arizona 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal criminal-appeal double-jeopardy first-degree-murder greater-offense hung-jury hung-jury-rule jury-instructions jury-verdict lesser-offense richardson-v-united-states second-degree-murder When a jury expressly states it is 'unable to agree' on a defendant's guilt for a greater offense and convicts the defendant of a lesser offense, and …
19-6552 Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6528 Royce C. Gouveia v. Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,jury,verdict,ac jury jury-verdict retrial verdict Does a jury's execution of a verdict form acquitting the defendant, and announcement that it has reached a verdict, suffice to erect a double jeopardy…
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-6404 Donald Lee Curtis v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process kidnapping statutory-conduct whether Seconds degree kidnapping and Armed Robbery Violate the Condtikutional right of double Jeopardy Upon Convictions and Panes ment oe beth offens…
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether a jury's failure to return a verdict has collateral estoppel effect
19-6417 Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment Whether a trial court must order sentence cumulation at the time of oral pronouncement
19-6359 Stephen Nivens v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-25 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge Boyer
19-6265 Alex Knight v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a …
19-489 Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States Armed Forces 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a…
19-6269 Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6203 Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied IFP chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appellate court's unexplained decision, rather than 'looking through' …
19-6107 Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges?
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jury at a prior trial but as to which that jury did…
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 Petitioner Made A Substantial Showing Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-5987 Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington Washington 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state Whether the Washington State Courts can refuse to adhere to the Supreme Court's holding in North Carolina v. Pearce
19-5965 Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington Washington 2019-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to a charge should be denied collateral consequences to be told at the time of sentencing, resulting in a subst…
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated?
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution
19-311 Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion Whether the required strict scrutiny applied to the legal determination of manifest necessity constrains the deference accorded a trial court's fact-f…
19-5739 Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine Does the 'separate sovereigns' doctrine permit multiple punishments that are exempted from the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual p…
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
19-5664 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute Whether the trial court lacked the authority to set aside the conviction and dismiss the cause
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double…
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Does judicial confession in this case, without a waiver and without prior appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant, violate the Legal Assistan…
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution Whether the government can use a joint task force and the same prosecution team to prosecute a citizen in state and federal court at the same time
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-5643 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal inherent-power inherent-power-of-courts judicial-integrity jury-deadlock mistrials prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers trial-court-discretion trial-court-power Whether a trial court possesses inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following serial mistrials for jury deadlock or whether the exe…
19-5619 Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY-COMMISSION-HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the sta…
19-5570 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review Whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed an improper and unduly burdensome standard for granting a certificate of appealability in Mr. Barton's federal …
19-5514 In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa 2019-08-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction Whether the Blue Caste that rested on a Wrongful Conviction of an innocent person because of Ineffective Counsel Lack Knowledge and Understanding of t…
19-5479 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to Double Jeopardy
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
19-5417 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdiction native-american-rights standing Whether the state court had jurisdiction to convict the petitioner under the Major Crimes Act
19-5422 Michael A. Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-5369 Willie Chambers v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure multiplicitous-indictment post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt right-to-fair-trial right-to-life-and-liberty state-court-review vindictive-prosecution Whether the petitioner has a valid claim of a constitutional right to be free from a vindictive and multiplicitous indictment that he now stands convi…
19-5363 Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Ohio 2019-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause
19-126 Gary A. Oram, Jr. v. City of Dillon, Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-resolution liability magistrate-jurisdiction private-citizen section-1985 standing Are the Courts able to find a judicial resolution in a §1985(3) claim against one private citizen, after all other individuals in the action are relea…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand?
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-5248 Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Question not identified
19-5223 Bobby Minnis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-modification state-sentencing Whether a federal district judge can amend a final sentence years later to a defendant's detriment
19-5243 Larry Marvel v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5043 Justin Panus v. Texas Texas 2019-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of an offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an…
19-37 Matthew Freeman v. Texas Texas 2019-07-03 Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional…
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in li…
19-3 Ryan Begay v. New Mexico New Mexico 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense Whether the 'same elements' test adequately protects against multiple punishments for 'the same offence'
18-9836 Dwight Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge coercion coercive-instruction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mistrial verdict-review Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion in reversing or rescinding its grant of mistrial
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9741 Quintin Irving Brown v. City of Richmond, Virginia Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct misdemeanor-reduction probation-violation prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial void-judgment When a trial occurs over a defendant's expressed objections to a violation of that state's statutory right to speedy trial, when should the conviction…
18-9725 Jose Munoz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars a retrial on one pending count since manifest necessity was not shown for the grant of a mis…
18-9681 Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Montana Supreme Court's imposition of a 10-year sentence pursuant to MCA § 46-18-502 violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-9654 Carl Javan Ross v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial Was the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial violated as well as public trial rights?
18-9636 Donald Furtys v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment artificial-intelligence automated-technology criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment video-voyeurism Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause bars multiple convictions of video voyeurism stemming from a camera that has new automated technolo…
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…
18-9642 Jeffrey Benton v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal class-v-united-states criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy face-of-the-record guilty-plea indictment united-states-v-broce waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea and waives appeal can raise a double-jeopardy argument on direct appeal
18-9570 Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas Texas 2019-06-07 Denied IFP appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough Whether Texas v. McCullough created a bright-line rule that the presumption of judicial vindictiveness under North Carolina v. Pearce is inapplicable …
18-9576 Alvin Weekly v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti…
18-9512 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-culpability double-jeopardy dry-conspiracy due-process guilt indictment jury reasonable-foreseeability subject-matter-jurisdiction Who does the jury have to be in order to establish guilt or criminal culpability in all dry conspiracy crimes?
18-9524 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report rehabilitation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the AEDPA was violated
18-9478 David Rothenberg v. Florida Florida 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct Is the use by the prosecutor of a 'probable cause affidavit' containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to charge …
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence Whether the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Profess…
18A1243 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure dna-evidence double-jeopardy ohio-supreme-court post-conviction retrial Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a criminal defendant after a prior conviction was vacated based on newly discovered DNA evidence
18-9394 Ward T. Evans v. Delaware Delaware 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses
18-9367 Michael F. Ramsey v. New York New York 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-punishment consecutive-sentences criminal-possession criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy firearm-law intent-of-legislature johnson-v-morgenthau judicial-precedent legislative-intent misapplied-decisions penal-law single-continuous-possession weapon-possession Whether New York, by allowing consecutive sentences for the single continuous possession of the same firearm, ignored its own precedent in Johnson v. …
18-9356 Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency…
18A1199 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection criminal-conviction double-jeopardy federal-statute fifth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits revoking supervised release based on conduct for which a defendant has already been criminally convicted …
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
18-9258 Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the 'vagueness challenge' of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is conside…
18-9243 Chima Edozie Aligwekwe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial restitution sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is violated when a district court increases the defendant's prison sentence and…
18-9231 Matthew Leachman v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation continuing-jeopardy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction indictment indictment-strategy retrial retrial-rights Whether a State may break the original indictment into discrete pieces to obtain multiple trials in a retrial comprising 'continuing jeopardy' where t…
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…
18-9194 Noah Espada v. Texas Texas 2019-05-08 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl…
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying…
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…
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence
18-9113 Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law?
18-1369 James Bradley Anderson v. Washington Washington 2019-05-01 Denied bill-of-particulars criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions pre-trial-notice prosecutorial-discretion Must the particulars of each count of an information be specified prior to trial, or can a prosecutor be allowed to match alleged acts to the counts i…
18-1359 William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's sent…
18-8983 Patrick Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim…
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8895 Kevin Watkins v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel civil-rights conflicted-jurors conflicts-of-interest criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection open-trial Is a defendant's right to an open trial violated when an attorney observing the trial and was asked to assist with defendant's appeal, was barred from…
18-8851 Lester James Smith v. Georgia Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction Whether the State of Georgia erred in sentencing Mr. Smith to multiple punishments for a single criminal act of attempt to elude police
18-8833 Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia Virginia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process elements felon-in-possession jurisdiction notice second-amendment Can a State maintain a judgment of conviction for a crime that the defendant never served notice of the elements for?
18-8853 Cameron Brown v. California California 2019-04-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-proceedings double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict lesser-included-offenses mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-transcript Is the defendant convicted due to double jeopardy violation?
18-8861 Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime?
18-8828 Dante Overby v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overreach plea-bargaining speedy-trial Does the guilty plea induced by an 'illusory promise' violate the 6th Amendment?
18-8791 Danny D. Bissonette v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-law prosecutorial-jurisdiction state-sovereignty treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Did the state court err in failing to set aside the conviction of a federally recognized tribal member living in Indian country?
18-1283 Joseph Montano v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response Waived consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano Whether the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was plain error that overrides the consent requirement of Oregon v. Kennedy, an…
18-8733 Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established statutes as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crime, merely erodin…
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…
18-8777 Salim Abdu Gould v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner was denied due process and the right to self-representation before the appointment of counsel and during the motions entertaine…
18-8778 Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar Retroactive amendment of U.S. Constitution's ex-post facto law
18-1282 David Lee Sanders v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to an illegal plea agreement is entitled to include the time from his original arrest until re…
18-8762 Jason Curtis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment indictment remand standing superceding-indictment superseding-indictment Whether Brown's Fifth Amendment right to double jeopardy, due process and the expressed terms of the 6th Cir. Court of Appeals limited remand order we…
18-8688 Frederick A. McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights record statutory-provisions Whether the District Court erred in denying the appellant's due process and fundamental fairness claims
18-8699 Marckenson Chery v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the …
18-8512 DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights Whether a multiplicitous sentence issue can be raised at any time
18-8456 Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in …
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-8463 Douglas A. Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC was n…
18-8391 Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8285 Miguel Martinez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-05 Denied IFP mistrial objective-facts oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent subjective-beliefs wheeler-factors criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent wheeler-factors Whether Texas courts have replaced the manageable and effective 'objective facts and circumstances' test recognized in Oregon v. Kennedy with the so-c…
18-8246 In Re Dennis D. Jackson 2019-03-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest speedy-trial Whether a petitioner who remains in custody in violation of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights must be immediately discharged without regard to state l…
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention Whether petitioner's pre-trial detention violates his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and due process
18-8138 Joseph Hughes v. Dan Schnurr, Warden Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied IFP acquittal acquittal-implications civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process second-prosecution sex-offender-management sexual-offender sexual-offender-registration state-authority How can the State of Kansas manage me as a sexual offender when I was found acquitted of rape by a jury?
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?
18-8123 In Re Ronnie Lee Fagan 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel double-jeopardy mistrial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's exclusion of defense counsel denied the defendant an opportunity to be heard or object to the discharge of the jury, prejudi…
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-7961 David Martinko v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation Should the 'Absurdity Doctrine' be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether to protect legislative supremacy?
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7912 Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida Florida 2019-02-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment violates due process and double jeopardy
18-7928 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abney-rule appeal bail bail-denial criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction notice-of-appeal Was U.S. District Court, (S.D. Cal.) divested of jurisdiction because of Abney-rule
18-7934 Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent prosecutorial misconduct?
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7830 Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution To determine 'same offense' in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by the United …
18-7753 Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers?
18-7778 Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti…
18-7714 Anthony Grandison v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding...
18-7721 Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution What type of prejudice showing is required to obtain dismissal under Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(b) for delayed federal prosecution after state conviction?
18-7665 Robert Tommy Garrett v. California California 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial viola…
18-7675 Eric Hayes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rules of Whalen v. United States and Illinois v. Vitale regarding the double jeopardy clause
18-7632 Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision Whether the state court's denial of a motion to dismiss a felony charge that was never prosecuted violates the petitioner's due process rights
18-7533 Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing Did Canada receive effective assistance of counsel?
18-7479 Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts?
18-7329 Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns …
18-7360 Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742(a) allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence if a defendant could show a violation of law?
18-7325 John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison Petitioner upon an unconstitutional statute?
18-7269 Larry Allison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no actual resulting conviction has been held?
18-821 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty fifth-amendment gamble-v-united-states supreme-court Whether the Court should overrule the dual sovereignty exception to the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause
18-7167 Cornelius Tyrone Kirsh v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender insufficient-evidence involuntary-statements reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kirsh is guilt
18-7146 Jonathan Samuel Sage v. Washington Washington 2018-12-21 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process evidence-restriction judicial-review jury-instructions multiple-convictions same-crime same-person-same-time separate-and-distinct-conduct uncharged-misconduct witness-credibility Should this Court grant review where Washington State's published Court of Appeals decision affirmed these multiple convictions despite ambiguous and …
18-7106 Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge…
18-7109 Tshombe Miller v. Ohio Ohio 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution Is 'carbon copy' charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const…
18-7074 Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions on Count 3
18-7005 Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-6976 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2018-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon Whether the state trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense when the evidence in the case supports an inferen…
18-739 Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn?
18-6950 Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas Texas 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Did the state decide an important Constitutional Double Jeopardy violation that conflicted with another Court and the Supreme Court?
18-6962 In Re Walter E. Kostich 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case in the absence of a statutory required signed 'Bind-Over Order'…
18-6964 Henry L. Wallace v. United States District of Columbia 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can be procedurally or time bar adjudication
18-6897 Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid double jeopardy
18-6800 Robert Ryan Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t…
18-6821 Michael Brandon Kelley v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sexual-abuse state-law Did the state court's failure to apply state-law double-jeopardy protections in Petitioner Kelley's case result in a violation of Kelley's constitutio…
18-6824 Martavious Detrel Banks Keys v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 349 U.S. 81 (1955) on double-jeopardy bell-v-united-states congressional-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-enforcement mens-rea multiple-punishments single-statute testimony Whether the Fifth Circuit violated this Court's holding in Bell v. United States, 349 U.S. 81 (1955), that there must be a showing of congressional in…
18-6785 Christopher Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple convictions and punishments for the same criminal conduct under the Blockburger test
18-650 Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on a charge for which the jury a…
18-6742 Albert Uriah Mathis v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge order a mistrial in a case simply, so he may attend a Dr. appointment?
18-6744 Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea?
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment
18-6686 Grady Pederson v. Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process evidence-suppression sex-offender-registry standing statute-of-limitations Why was the State of Minnesota allowed to suppress evidence since 11/01/1995?
18-6663 Esau Escobar v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-13 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o…
18-6674 Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas Texas 2018-11-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness
18-6527 Jedediah C. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2018-10-31 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred…
18-562 Elizabeth Haring Coomes v. Maryland Insurance Administration Maryland 2018-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-362-b-4 bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process insurance-licensing police-power regulatory-action regulatory-power Whether 11 U.S.C. 362(b)(4) applies to a Debtor's appeal of a final regulatory action
18-6499 Dominique Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search Whether an individual can challenge a warrantless arrest inside a home by federal government agents under the 4th Amendment
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice?
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
18-6270 Cornelius Lynch v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,constitutional- due-process mistrial retrial trial-procedure May a state, consistent with the protections of the Double Jeopardy Clause, try a defendant a second time when the first trial ended in a mistrial whi…
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh…
18-6169 Tracy L. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy
18-397 William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine Virginia 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires Whether the Virginia Board of Medicine violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause by declaring a physician a convicted felon based on a felony charge t…
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive-Due-Process, Double-Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-6038 Carlos D. Villavicencio v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction nolle-prosequi prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether the prosecution (State of Florida) retained jurisdiction after the speedy trial period expired
18-6001 Demario Carman v. Georgia Georgia 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise
18-6017 William Robey v. Washington Washington 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act conspiracy-against-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-mandate void-ab-initio Is the KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT mandated to obey the Washington State Supreme court ruling of 1988- CrR 3.1(b)(2)?
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether the 2002 enactments violate the ex-post-facto-clauses,whether the trier-of-fact lost-subject-matter-jurisdiction,whether ex-post-facto-violati…
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-5966 Joseph Faulkner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh…
18-5930 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to simultaneously impose two sentences for a drug offense and …
18-5954 Don Ray White v. Texas Texas 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court had jurisdiction to entertain the petitioner's claim that the indictment was presented without jurisdiction
18-5896 Beverly Allen Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the government committed a Kotteakos violation by using evidence of multiple conspiracies to support an indictment for a single conspiracy
18-5864 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws Whether the California state court system completely violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution and the rights of …
18-5854 Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces…
18-5812 In Re Richard DeCaro 2018-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception Whether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-5795 Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the Blockburger double jeopardy test is the sole test for double jeopardy analysis
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'?
18-5676 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5714 Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information
18-5720 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment Whether Respondent Judge Susanne C. Pineda abused discretion in denying Petitioner Bartlett's motion to dismiss for double jeopardy, in violation of h…
18-227 Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution Whether a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute based on a claim of vi…
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin 2018-08-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals erred in granting a new trial based on an inconsistent jury verdict, even though irreconcilable jury verdicts ar…
18-5586 William Knight v. Florida Florida 2018-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether trial court abused their authority by allowing the state attorney office to impose a sentence contrary to the requirements of the law on doubl…
18-5540 Darnell Rush v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant-appellant was entitled to a new trial where the trial court failed to answer the defendant's request, Did the trial court err in…
18-5528 Brian Thurman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by increasing his sentence based on acquitted conduct
18-5497 Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense Whether Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when state law defines 'distribution' to…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a higher level charge after being convicted of a lesser include…
18-5309 Maurice McLain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause and plea agreement were violated by a second prosecution,whether the verdict conflicts with physical evidence and r…
18-5261 Vester L. Patterson v. California California 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations May a defendant be tried and punished for offenses that were statutorily barred by the statute of limitation's?
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict
18-5241 Victor Maturino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission may amend the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines to create new categories of conduct that increase sentences wi…
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Whether a defendant can be actually innocent of a sentence in a non-capital case, whether a prior mistrial renders nugatory all prior proceedings, and…
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial and vacating his sentence, and whether the court violated the Double J…
18-5153 Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c…
18-5075 Felix A. Okafor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment May a conviction that is admittedly a violation of the concurrent-sentence-doctrine be allowed to stand in light of Ray-v-United-States
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F…
18-5086 Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial Whether a state court may indefinitely postpone prosecution over the accused's objection by nolle-prosequi and re-indictment of the same charges, know…
18-5027 Mark O. Wright v. Virginia Virginia 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included of…