| 25-6186 |
Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record |
Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 25-6030 |
Terry Lee Miksell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
1. It is asked of this High Court as to whether the District
Court had jurisdiction under Gozales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005)
to prosecute this case, … |
| 25-5981 |
Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5740 |
Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt |
Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily… |
| 25-5619 |
Michael Garrick Denson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts.
2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 25-5116 |
Mark Ellis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt |
I. DUE PROCESS REQUIRES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ALLOW A RATIONAL JURY TO FIND GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. WHERE THE EVIDENCE THAT A FIREARM WAS PO… |
| 24-7289 |
Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt |
Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in… |
| 24-7045 |
Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain multiple drug and firearm-related convictions and whether the imposed sentence violates due proc… |
| 24-7031 |
Christopher William Kuehner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation evidence-sufficiency in-concert-element predicate-offenses subpoena-disclosure user-profile-access |
Is the failure to disclose exculpatory subpoena returns until post-trial a Brady violation warranting conviction vacatur; does the 'in concert' elemen… |
| 24-5765 |
Robert Lance Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented |
| 24-5464 |
Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
Whether Texas counsel fails to adequately challenge insufficient evidence and provide ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Constitut… |
| 24-5270 |
Patrick Douglas Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-review due-process evidence-sufficiency jackson-v-virginia witness-identification |
Whether the use of selective evidence constitutes an impermissible divide and conquer strategy for evaluating evidence sufficiency under the 14th Amen… |
| 23-7735 |
Maria M. Faust v. Michael T. Faust |
District of Columbia |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction domestic-violence due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure military-spousal-abuse |
Question not identified |
| 23-7669 |
Anthony Bender, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency police-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-sentence witness-testimony |
whether-the-government's-failure-to-disclose-the-dash-camera-video-constituted-a-brady-violation |
| 23-7339 |
Philip Shane Young v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure deadly-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-instructions standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's finding that a deadly weapon was used? |
| 23-6652 |
Don Meeker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us |
Insufficient-evidence-for-carjacking-conviction |
| 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? |
| 23-6211 |
Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error |
Whether the trial court violated petitioner's right to be present, right to counsel, and right to self-representation when it improperly excluded peti… |
| 23-5718 |
Adam Neftali Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing |
Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant? |
| 23-5314 |
Joe Crawford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction when the government fails to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner knew or… |
| 23-5289 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est… |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the con… |
| 22-7670 |
Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding sufficient evidence to convict the defendant under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) based solely on the defendant's ack… |
| 22-7620 |
Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Question not identified |
| 22-7344 |
Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever… |
| 22-6912 |
Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitutional … |
| 22-6837 |
James Randolph Sherman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-fairness criminal-conspiracy drug-offense due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-speculation loose-practice non-incriminating-evidence unfairness-to-defendant |
Does the U.S. Constitution embrace a criminal conspiracy conviction when the government presents non-incriminating evidence of innocent conduct regard… |
| 22-6794 |
Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
Why is Mr. Biggs being denied relief even though the convictions for kidnapping do not have the essential elements to support it? |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 22-5779 |
James Michael Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict the petitioner of wire fraud and money laundering |
| 22-205 |
Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a federal court must apply the 'rule of equipoise' and grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when evidence of guilt and innocence is evenly… |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements for being a felon in possession? |
| 21-7911 |
Lincoln Dille, aka Lincoln Dille II v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial standing |
whether-the-state-used-all-of-its-peremptory-challenges-against-african-american-jurors |
| 21-7858 |
Larry Lewis v. Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
Whether the indictment was defective in count 1 and 2 under state law, whether the indictment failed to specify the date and place of the alleged crim… |
| 21-7459 |
Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) |
| 21-7280 |
Sammie Carroll v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction? |
| 21-6668 |
Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act |
| 21-6670 |
Eric Beverly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict |
| 21-6233 |
Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine |
Did the courts below err in convicting the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine? |
| 21-6230 |
In Re Billy John Roberson |
|
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code |
Whether the petitioner was wrongfully convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon despite not owning or having access to a firearm |
| 21-6162 |
Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts in Tennessee exceeded the jurisdiction conferred and acted illegally |
| 21-6090 |
Olry Maurival v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud |
Whether the verdict of guilt was supported by sufficient evidence |
| 21-6045 |
Melissa Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed |
| 21-5804 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states |
Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-475 |
Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference |
Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide… |
| 21-5315 |
Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error |
Was the evidence sufficient to support the guilty verdict? |
| 21-5054 |
Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the Commonwealth of Vir… |
| 20-8288 |
Anthony L. Ingram v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal |
Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of the… |
| 20-7903 |
Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-objective criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-findings predicate-acts RICO-conspiracy |
Whether sufficient evidence exists to sustain a RICO conspiracy conviction when the Government charges specific predicate acts in the indictment, the … |
| 20-7686 |
Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record |
Whether this case should be held pending Greer v. United States |
| 20-7485 |
Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence |
Due-Process-Clause-Violation |
| 20-7087 |
Brian James Holland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility |
What is the definition of the term 'force' under 18 U.S.C. § 2241? |
| 20-7066 |
William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness |
Whether Echols was denied a fair and impartial trial due to several major constitutional and due process violations that included an improper joiner o… |
| 20-6978 |
Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18-U.S.C-924(c) |
| 20-6951 |
Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified |
| 20-6927 |
Anthony Freeney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was the evidence insufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 20-6384 |
Owen McCants v. Steven Silva |
First Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the trial court, appeals court, and Supreme Judicial Court abused their discretion? |
| 20-650 |
Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard |
Whether the district court applied the wrong standard in concluding that the subpoena target's search was adequate and quashing the subpoena |
| 20-6094 |
Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner due process |
| 20-5603 |
Michael A. Glover v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Pennsylvania state courts violate the petitioner's 5th and 14th amendment rights when they found the petitioner guilty despite insufficient ev… |
| 20-5177 |
Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion |
Whether repeated questioning of jurors about a holdout juror violates Brasfield v. United States |
| 20-5171 |
Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Whether the lower courts properly applied Supreme Court precedent and enforced the U.S. Constitution |
| 19-8885 |
Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the panel err by holding that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 19-8642 |
Christopher Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing |
Why was I denied the right to subpoena Indianapolis Metro Detectives to refute their falsified record to the Grand Jury? |
| 19-8546 |
Annamalai Annamalai and Parvathi Sivanadiyan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction judicial-error new-trial procedural-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
issues-being-raised |
| 19-8338 |
Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8326 |
Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability |
When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply … |
| 19-8106 |
Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction |
| 19-7987 |
Ashley R. Hambright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure driving-while-intoxicated due-process dui evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-appeals intoxication magistrate-review military-jurisdiction stare-decisis sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the DWI conviction by relying on an incorrect statement of the law on causation and failing to evaluate t… |
| 19-7768 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities |
Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the jury… |
| 19-7388 |
Aaron Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif |
Whether a defendant must point to an actual state court prosecution to demonstrate a prior conviction is not a categorical match |
| 19-7183 |
Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree |
Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree |
| 19-7167 |
Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder |
| 19-6964 |
David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights |
Issue being raised |
| 19-5934 |
Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner can establish a gateway claim of actual innocence based on a constitutional claim of insufficiency of evidence |
| 19-5432 |
Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents |
| 18A1333 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-sufficiency guilty-plea plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether a district court may deny a criminal defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea after the defendant seeks to proceed to trial and challenges… |
| 18-9678 |
Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson? |
| 18A1306 |
Latif Shamsuddin v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
burden-shifting criminal-trial due-process evidence-sufficiency prosecutorial-misconduct summation-comments |
Whether a prosecutor's statements during summation improperly shift the burden of proof in a criminal trial in violation of due process |
| 18-9465 |
Beth Galloway v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial |
Whether a judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit failed to properly apply Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922(e) |
| 18-9082 |
Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant |
Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-8981 |
John Bowling v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency free-speech jury-instructions standing |
Any ERRONEOUS INSTRUCTION on force WMS Ofer to the funy |
| 18-8858 |
Aspen Warren v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there must be sufficient evidence to convict under each manner or means alleged in a murder case where under state statutes a jury need not be… |
| 18-8681 |
Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime? |
| 18-8132 |
Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a constitutional error reviewed under plain error standards is an adjudication on the merits; and whether AEDPA deferential standards of revie… |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether the sentencing court erred in admitting hearsay statements as excited utterances |
| 18-6792 |
Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit erred in granting summary judgment for Indiana Bell despite finding that both parties submitted 'sparse… |
| 18-6618 |
Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call |
Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case… |
| 18-5686 |
Dwight Mundle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony |
Was there enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c) |