| 23-590 |
Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights |
Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 21-5992 |
Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served |
Whether the sentencing court erred in its application of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5515 |
Kenneth Hairston v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor criminal-procedure death-penalty felony-convictions ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact victim-impact-testimony |
Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance by failing to object to the prosecutor's improper argument regarding victim impact testimony used to … |
| 20-902 |
Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-5417 |
Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing |
Whether the retroactive erasure of felony convictions violates due process and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability reflects a breakdown in th… |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 19-6348 |
Billy J. Griffin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statute indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state court would no… |