ends-of-justice
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A644 | Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act | Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended. | |
| 25-6119 | Charvez Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio… |
| 25-5864 | Rodney E. Barnett v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-writ brady-violation confrontation-rights due-process ends-of-justice witness-perjury | 1. Does the "ends of justice " doctrine warrant abuse of writ defense by state be excused in this Sept. 4,2025 Arkansas Supreme Court Order? 2. Did … |
| 24-6381 | Gary Eugene Graham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights covid-19-delay due-process ends-of-justice sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Is it a violation of a pretrial defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a Speedy Trial along with the Speedy Trial Act, and this Honorable Court's decisi… |
| 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 |
| 23-6965 | Armando Orozco-Barron v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19-pandemic criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice due-process ends-of-justice individual-assessment judicial-discretion pandemic speedy-trial-act | Whether a court may extend the Speedy Trial Act's deadlines by general order, without individually evaluating defendants' interests in a speedy trial |
| 23-5658 | James Kevin Ball v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 covid-19-delay criminal-defendant-rights district-court due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-provision jury-trial-suspension jury-trials ninth-circuit-review speedy-trial | Whether a district court may continue to rely on emergency circumstances to delay a trial under the ends-of-justice provision at 18 USC. § 3161(h)(7)(… |
| 22-419 | Cedric Chanu v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud | Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any 'implied misrepresentation' that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, even w… | |
| 22-402 | James Vorley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' under the wire fraud statute encompasses an 'implied misrepresentation' | |
| 21-7557 | Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance | Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock? |
| 19-8665 | Anthony Jackson v. Supreme Court of Illinois | Illinois | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-continuance constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice judicial-supervisory-authority speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights supervisory-authority trial-tolling unconstitutional void-ab-initio | Whether a court's supervisory authority empowers the court to toll the speedy-trial terms in cases not before the court |
| 19-1020 | Florence Bikundi v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act | Whether a district court granting an ends-of-justice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act violates the requirement to set forth reasons |
| 19-7509 | In Re Lawrence E. Mattison | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio | Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act) allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal proc… | |
| 19-587 | Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion | Whether a district court may exclude time pursuant to a stipulation between the parties without making on-the-record findings under the Speedy Trial A… | |
| 18-9835 | Melvin Perez v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-27 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity commission-date ends-of-justice primary-offense prior-offense sentencing-scoresheet | Can a trial court score an offense as a prior on a sentencing scoresheet if the time of the commission of that offense is subsequent to the time of th… |