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25-6585 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering prosecution-misconduct self-incrimination speedy-trial 1. Whether the prosecution can use an arbitrary and fictitious list of 442 unknown individuals during sentencing all of whom never testified during t…
25A808 In Re Esaias Joseph Menasi Eighth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application due-process evidence-tampering ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct supreme-court witness-intimidation Question not identified.
25-6496 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pinholster-exception 1) Does this court's decision in Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S.170; 131 S.CT. 1388 (2011), permit an exception whereby federal courts may consider ne…
25-649 Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1. On October 16, 2025, the United States Department of Justice disclosed its indictment of previous National Security Advisor (N-SA) to President Don…
25-5688 Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg Maryland 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP divorce-proceedings dna-evidence evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct property-division retirement-benefits 1) Why did Judge Michael Twigg at Allegany Court House make the false accusation that our thirty-five-year-old daughter is the product of infidelity …
24-7383 In Re Robert Timothy Blake 2025-06-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated by ineffective assistance of counsel, improper search warrants, withheld discovery, and po…
24-6799 James Garfield Charles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial QP: Whether the government failed to prove a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearm usage in furtherance of the conspiracy
24-6426 Carlin U. Powell v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance interstate-detainer perjury Whether state prosecutors and witnesses can commit perjury and evidence tampering without constitutional consequences
24-6424 Terrance L. Clopton v. Illinois Illinois 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-tampering false-affidavit probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the use of a warrantless search by an officer based on a false affidavit violates the defendant's constitutional rights and can be grounds for…
24-787 Marco Destin, Inc., et al. v. Shaul Levy, Individually and as Agent of L&L Wings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence-tampering federal-courts fraud-on-court hazel-atlas judicial-integrity Whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. imposes a mandatory duty on federal courts to vacate judgments tain…
24-5983 Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law evidence-tampering fruit-of-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation veterans-claims Whether the CAVC and CAFC improperly dismissed allegations of evidence tampering and government misconduct in a veterans' disability claim
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of …
23-1082 Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response Waived compulsory-process due-process entrapment evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure witness-disclosure Whether the admission in evidence of 161 eBay & e to PayPal accounts seized and modified by them with + . so, information obtained from Postal Inspect…
23-5707 Edward James Steiner v. Washington Washington 2023-10-03 Denied IFP case-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering insufficient-evidence judicial-process jury-instructions legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Was there prosecuter misconduct?
23-5552 Lei Yin v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. Massachusetts 2023-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-bias legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-rights standing worker-compensation Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Court Systems in COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS?
23-32 Edward Jacob Lang v. United States District of Columbia 2023-07-11 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence-tampering official-proceedings police-violence public-demonstrations riot-context statutory-interpretation van-buren-v-united-states Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2) can be used to prosecute acts of violence against po…
23-5056 Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment Whether the violation of standard of review for summary judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected or violator go unpunished
22-1126 In Re Dorothy M. Hartman 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering government-overreach intellectual-property judicial-misconduct patent-rights separation-of-powers Should Judges of Appellate Courts have the right to ignore, manipulate, or even destroy evidence in cases pending before them in support of the Federa…
22-6598 Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu California 2023-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-tampering false-declaration fraud judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure legal-standing standing Whether a judgment should stand when the judge could not face the person against whom the judgment is rendered, knowing the judgment is based on false…
22-6240 Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel
22-5777 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2022-10-06 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac…
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim at h…
21-8091 Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's constitutional rights were not violated and in not granting a new tri…
21-1026 Camille A. Walters v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, et al. Wisconsin 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-ethics procedural-irregularity prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-requirement standing Was it illegal that the Wisconsin Supreme Court disregarded their own rules of internal operating procedures
21-6781 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws
21-6620 Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the steps the petitioner proposed for regaining access to those letters are a 'watershed rule implicating the fundamental fairness and accurac…
21-5932 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution Whether the DNA and fingerprint evidence was fabricated by substituting the gloves examined for fingerprints with different gloves examined for DNA, r…
21-5909 Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. Virginia 2021-10-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney misc…
21-412 Samantha V. Roussell v. Bank of New York Mellon Florida 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud impartiality judicial-review mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendmen…
21-40 Lumbsden A. Sangster v. Anthony Valencia California 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights defamation evidence evidence-tampering fair-report-privilege free-speech police-communication press-communication section-47 Whether the fair report privilege applies to a private communication between a police officer and a member of the press in a defamation case
20-1736 Katrina L. Webster v. Thomas W. Harker, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights deposition-misconduct due-process eeoc eeoc-procedure employment-discrimination evidence-tampering legal-ethics summary-judgment witness-tampering Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant despite evidence that the defendant's counsel improperly directed a dep…
20-1558 Vinay Yadav v. Texas Texas 2021-05-10 Denied civil-rights conspiracy-against-civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ninth-amendment sixth-amendment thirteenth-amendment Whether COA/Texas-courts contravene the U.S. Constitution and Federal laws
20-7894 Winston A. McKenzie v. Texas Texas 2021-04-29 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering material-exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-proceeding standing Whether Petitioners conviction is invalid when the evidence presented was legally insufficient to sustain a conviction
20-7882 Taurean Potter v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial and due process was violated when the government failed to correct false testimony…
20-6729 Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing Whether the petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, and why the courts have avoided address…
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
20-6178 William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde…
20-5690 Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the arresting officer had permission to enter and search the appellant's family property, and whether it was legal for the officer to accept a…
19-8808 Randolph Ashford v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Was the State of South Carolina City of Columbia violate Ashford's 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights by withholding evidence
19-8758 Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. California 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Question not identified
19-8307 Jose Lopez v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2020-04-19 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-tampering habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct Was due process followed per the Connecticut constitution?
19-8204 Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause?
19-7318 John Henry Yablonsky v. California California 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity How can the Supreme Court of the United States uphold constitutional laws if the court allows state territories to plunder the cornerstones of those l…
19-876 Fernando A. Ramirez v. Dave Hogue, et al. North Dakota 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights court-integrity document-fraud due-process evidence evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct legal-procedure public-records spoliation Whether courts can ignore the modification and deletion of public and important documents such as 911 Call for Service records in order to sabotage a …
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's presentation of false or misleading evidence violates due process and requires vacating a conviction and remanding for a new tr…
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
19-6695 Ilana Rigwan v. Jordan Lee Neus Florida 2019-11-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure court-records docket-alteration evidence-tampering judicial-accountability judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency legal-accountability public-trust Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished?
19-6732 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington 2019-11-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest false-evidence perjury police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether state officials can use forged evidence to convict a U.S. citizen
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing Whether Mr. Young's conviction violated due process and his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights due to the use of tampered evidence
19-279 Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause whether-due-process-clause-permits-judgment-to-stand-when-court-altered-evidence
19-189 Miles Christian-Hart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2019-08-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud judicial-procedure mortgage-litigation standing summary-judgment trial-rights Whether due process can abide a system in which one level of due process is accorded the bank and another level of due process is accorded the borrowe…
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
18-9795 Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court of appeals decision to deny a COA concluding that petitioner sufficiency of evidence claim was procedurally defaulted based on state…
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…
18-8127 Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated
18-6966 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York 2018-12-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct pauperis-exclusion standing state-action state-actor-immunity state-actors Whether the pauperis public can find justice and relief from oppression when they do not have the Courts or the Constitution to protect them from corr…
18-6861 John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct Where John Wilborn made an actual innocence claim, did the Commonwealth violate John Wilborn's rights by withholding the probable cause transcript fro…
18-607 Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach Does a trial court have the right to prosecute a scientist for forward-thinking science?
18-6031 Noah R. Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just…
18-330 Douglas Walter Greene v. Frost Brown Todd, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-violations constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct jury-trial perjured-witnesses perjury public-policy rule-of-law May the Federal District & Appellate Courts knowingly & purposely render a Decision based on overwhelming fraud in the record
18-5010 Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews California 2018-06-28 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition…