| 25-5249 |
Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment |
1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w… |
| 23-6480 |
Joseph D. Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition |
Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to:
(1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te… |
| 23-6103 |
Alvin Celius Andre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government
substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18
U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv… |
| 23-5990 |
Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review |
1. Does fraud, perpetrated by the federal government during a federal criminal proceeding so as to obstruct a defendant from mounting an entrapment de… |
| 23-485 |
Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
|
compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant is constitutionally entitled to obtain use immunity for the only person who can disprove the defendant's guilt, when the Governmen… |
| 23A164 |
Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
compulsory-process entrapment-defense fifth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment use-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process require the government to grant use immunity to a defense witness whose ex… |
| 22-6039 |
Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations |
Was Kimbrell entitled to an entrapment instruction? |
| 22-5150 |
Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal |
Whether a district court errs when it permits the government to introduce highly inflammatory, and otherwise inadmissible, evidence to preemptively re… |
| 21-7444 |
Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition |
When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins… |
| 20-5548 |
James Michael Hood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-predisposition digital-inducement digital-relationships due-process entrapment entrapment-defense law-enforcement-sting minor-enticement predisposition sting-operation |
Whether, when the government has induced a person to break the law and the defense of entrapment is at issue, the government need only show that its i… |
| 19-8698 |
Neal Scott Stone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit |
whether-the-sixth-circuit's-amended-order-conflicts-with-lozada-v-deeds |
| 19-5176 |
Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing |
Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 18-1443 |
Nicholas Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism |
Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra… |
| 18-8575 |
Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement-intent ninth-circuit-precedent objective-theory sorrells-v-united-states subjective-theory |
Whether a court may decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime |
| 18-7885 |
Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions |
Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance… |