| 24-7211 |
Jeffrey Spivack v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal |
May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t… |
| 23-6817 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the First Circuit's Judgment was a valid decision by a quorum |
| 23-6759 |
Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment |
Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permits the sentencing judge to impose in the written judgment conditions of supervis… |
| 23-6298 |
Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment |
whether-the-return-of-an-indictment-without-a-vote-by-the-grand-jury-violates-the-fifth-amendment-guarantee-of-indictment-by-a-grand-jury |
| 23-5504 |
Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the District Court commit error that substantively violated Lakes' right when it failed to include the disputes of the objection to the PSR which … |
| 22-6393 |
Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter? |
| 20-8415 |
Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar… |
| 20-924 |
David G. Bowser v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal |
Whether a legal duty to disclose can be created by coupling a voluntary request for information with a false statement proscription |
| 20-5239 |
Junior Griffin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct joinder severance |
Whether courts must consider allegations of 'bad faith' by the government when deciding motions to join counts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a), or m… |
| 19-7568 |
Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter |
| 19-7512 |
Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decision of the D.C. Circuit on an important matte… |
| 19-7197 |
Darryl William Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver |
Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C… |
| 19-6674 |
Margarita Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter… |
| 19-6547 |
Kevin Sterling v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmance appeal appointed-counsel cja-18-usc-3006 criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-44 federal-rules-criminal-procedure gideon-v-wainwright inability-to-pay legal-representation right-to-counsel writ-of-certiorari |
Whether defendant should have been appointed counsel |
| 18-9370 |
Mark A. Blankenship v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors |
Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s… |
| 18-6557 |
Casey O'Dell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez |
Whether the Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N) rule was violated by the inadequacy of the change of plea colloquy? |
| 18-5058 |
Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Deante Drake's petition for rehearing en banc as untimely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(3)(A… |