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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5597 | Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida | Florida | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony statutory-provisions | Question not identified. |
| 24-5113 | Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida | Florida | 2024-07-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 23-7588 | Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-29 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7521 | Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7503 | Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7472 | Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7387 | Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-1149 | Stephen M. Calk, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | bank-bribery commercial-value corrupt-intent criminal-intent due-process felony felony-statute statutory-interpretation thing-of-value | Whether something with no commercial or objective value can constitute a 'thing of value' that 'exceed[s] $1,000,' the receipt of which is punishable … | |
| 23-7272 | Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-1131 | Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity | Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process |
| 23-7246 | Harold Stewart v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7245 | Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7248 | Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7239 | Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7162 | James Hodge v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7114 | Richard Marschall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability | Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the mi… |
| 23-6968 | Raymond Vincent v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6963 | James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6937 | Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6891 | Joshua Terrel Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6901 | Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6723 | Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida | Florida | 2024-02-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6622 | Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6597 | Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-26 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6558 | Freddie Quinn v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6527 | Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6304 | Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6289 | Wisben Sanon v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6143 | Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (6)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6049 | Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (8)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5965 | Cody Enrriquez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Relisted (9)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5868 | Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense | Whether the imposition of a mandatory eighteen-month jail sentence on a first offender for what might well be an entirely innocent regulatory infracti… |
| 23-5794 | Joseph Aiken v. Florida | Florida | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5684 | William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis | Whether a felon can be convicted of armed robbery without having a firearm or weapon and without being present at the scene of the crime? |
| 23-5579 | Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5575 | Andrew Sposato v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5570 | Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5567 | Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5455 | John A. Crane v. Florida | Florida | 2023-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5173 | Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5171 | Natoya Cunningham v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 22-7558 | Mike Vigil v. Midas International Corporation, et al | Nevada | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure default-judgment disability-act due-process elder-abuse elder-exploitation felony fraud intentional-fraud service-of-process standing | Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the intentional fraud and felony conduct by the defendants in the lower courts |
| 22-7239 | Edward Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process felony hobbs-act in-person jury-trial public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether allowing a seated juror to appear virtually via Zoom in a federal felony trial is structural error violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 22-6114 | Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz | Indiana | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing | Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime? |
| 22-5558 | Vince Edward LaSane v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that the jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a min… |
| 22-5546 | Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida | Florida | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 22-5458 | Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 21-1553 | Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona | Arizona | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (5) | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony |
| 21-1491 | City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez | Washington | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture | Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony? |
| 21-899 | Lauren Rosecan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion | Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of the Grand Jury Clause, felony offenses without… |
| 21-6059 | Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 20-7475 | Corry Jessie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction enhancement extraneous-offense felony relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Did the district court err in applying a 4-level enhancement for 'in connection with another felony offense'? |
| 20-7064 | Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification | Does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plye# v. Doe, Ex-Parte Bain v. U.S., U.S. v. Gaudin and the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment … |
| 20-5642 | Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment |
| 20-5254 | Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-08-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor | Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop… |
| 19-8778 | John Michael Allen v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-06-22 | Denied | IFP | accomplice capital-punishment criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment felony innocent-life nontriggerman | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for a 'nontriggerman' accomplice to a felony that is not likely to result in the loss of inn… |
| 19-7413 | Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation | Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process? |
| 19-6806 | Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification | Whether the underlying felony is part of the crime charged to create a predicate felony that charge, cannot stand |
| 19-6360 | George C. Pugh v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation | Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o… |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of their… |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe… |
| 18-9019 | Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the 'use' of another's identity without lawful authority |
| 18-7935 | Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit | Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i… |
| 18-7058 | Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention | Whether the denial of bail for over 15 months on an individual who has no documented history of felony, prior acts of violence, and no history of flig… |
| 18-5948 | Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |