| 25-5685 |
Anthony Lemicy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Can the government prove specific intent of 'use' without minor testimony, relying solely on circumstantial evidence and images, in violation of feder… |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that uncorroborated and unreliable double hearsay statements of an unreliable confidential informant was suf… |
| 23-5866 |
James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen |
Texas |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings |
Sufficiency of evidence to terminate parental rights |
| 22-5492 |
William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony |
Where there has never been any conviction |
| 22-170 |
Daniel Beckwitt v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
common-law-liability due-process evidentiary-sufficiency field-preemption gross-negligence judicial-criminalization preemptively-regulated-industries retroactive-criminalization |
Did Maryland's retroactive elimination of multiple field preemption defenses and imposition of absolute liability for deregulated fire safety conduct … |
| 21-8141 |
Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. |
Colorado |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures |
Whether or not fraud solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation |
| 21-7122 |
Thomas Warner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility |
Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for aggravated battery with a firearm should be reversed |
| 21-6897 |
Ramon Torres Ruelas v. Troy Bowser, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-sex-case child-sex-crimes credibility-of-witnesses criminal-defense evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-admissions lack-of-eyewitness-testimony lack-of-physical-evidence trial-strategy witness-credibility |
Whether trial counsel need not investigate witnesses with critical information relating to the putative victims' credibility in a child sex case where… |
| 20-6030 |
Byron A. Wyatt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard |
Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence 'if the interest of justice so requires' cannot be … |
| 20-5551 |
Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen… |
| 19-8261 |
Sean Ath v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti… |
| 18-9202 |
Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A… |
| 18-6910 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court improperly denied Musa's Rule 29 motion |
| 18-6641 |
Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing |
Why didn't the judge let the defendant take back their plea when counsel told the court the defendant never admitted to the rape charges? |