federal-rule-criminal-procedure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7092 Michael Dwayne Tryals v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rule-criminal-procedure mandatory-rules trial-court-violation Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) can be remedied on direct appeal, through equitable tolling, or as an…
24-788 Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either join in or not oppose the defendant's sen…
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)?
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-6033 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR IFP claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holding i…
18-9132 Earlie Dickerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba…