federal-public-defender
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A607 | Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights | |
| 25A588 | Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari | Whether the First Circuit's interpretation of the underlying criminal statute improperly limits a defendant's constitutional rights or procedural prot… | |
| 25A533 | James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction | Whether a federal habeas petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability when two complex areas of law intersect in a post-conviction review | |
| 25A517 | Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review due to counsel's professional scheduling constraints | |
| 25A404 | Ángel Forteza-García v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal federal-public-defender first-circuit legal-standard time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the First Circuit correctly interpreted the applicable legal standard in a federal criminal case involving Forteza-Garcia | |
| 25A332 | Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure federal-public-defender ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Ninth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential legal error | |
| 25A85 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A2 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards | |
| 24A707 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act deadline-extension federal-public-defender in-forma-pauperis petition-for-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant represented by appointed counsel under the Criminal Justice Act may seek an extension of time to file a petition for cert… | |
| 24A555 | Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-06 | Presumed Complete | criminal-case extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court-rule tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review based on potential legal errors in the underlying proceedings | |
| 24A183 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal federal-public-defender pro-se-pleadings sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the United States Sentencing Guidelines in affirming the criminal defendant's sentence | |
| 23A571 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review under standards for certiorari | |
| 23A406 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu… | |
| 23A363 | Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review based on counsel's workload and need for additional prepar… | |
| 21-6549 | Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process federal-public-defender habeas-corpus standing state-court-jurisdiction | Whether the state court of criminal appeals erred in declining to comply with a state law branch to fabricate a false set of facts not corroborating w… |
| 18A1239 | Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-public-defender jurisdiction supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the district court's judgment warrants Supreme Court review | |
| 18A1226 | Thomas Lewis, Kurt J. Myrie, and Derrick Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Presumed Complete | criminal-case federal-public-defender final-order ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final orders regarding the petitioners' criminal case |