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25A894 George Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency Question not identified.
25-6710 Jose Ramon Castillo-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP appellate-waiver federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guilty-plea plea-agreement withdrawal-of-plea 1. Based on his plea agreement's boilerplate waiver of most appellate rights, the Fifth Circuit dismissed Petitioner's challenge to his federal senten…
25-6716 Ramon Manuel Ortega-Borunda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6719 Rolando Heriberto Sanches-Raudales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6582 Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25A816 Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A819 Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-6463 Luis Antonio Talamantes-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6424 Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6343 Sharard Collier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding Ground One pre-trial ine…
25-6278 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised. D…
25A602 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo…
25A605 OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access
25-6175 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent 1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND …
25-6188 Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6152 Melvin Alberto-Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ…
25A556 La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi…
25-6009 Jorge Armando Varela-Angel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-465 Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-10-16 Pending Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse Waived asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law The United States Government brought parallel crim-inal and civil enforcement actions against Petitioner Tim-othy Barton, alleging violations of the s…
25-5905 Antonio Valle-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-403 Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo…
25-392 Jake Ellis Daughtry, et al. v. Silver Fern Chemical, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived evidence-fabrication fifth-circuit first-party-reliance fraud-claim government-agency third-party-misrepresentation 1. Whether Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. permits a fraud claim based on misrepresentations to a third-party government agency that cause inju…
25-5724 Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5558 Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment, entered against a pro se litigant who was incapacitated and hospitalized during…
25A202 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can overcome judicial immunity and First Amendment barriers to challenge a state court judge's actions in fede…
25-5391 Jose Guadalupe Marquez-Floriano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5384 Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings 1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself agreed to consider? 2. Did …
25-5363 Edras Reyes-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5178 Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A1293 Bart Wade Reagor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete fifth-circuit jurisdiction petition supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari in a Fifth Circuit case
24A1278 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for summary judgment in a complex commercial litigat…
24-7300 Jorge Arturo Nanez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7307 Eblin Omar Ardon-Amaya v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misapplying procedural default rules and violating due process in …
24-7271 Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7261 Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A1092 David Nicholson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to file a timely petition for certiorari is preserved when seeking an extension beyond the standar…
24-7053 Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro…
24-7013 Richard Schorovsky v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt Whether the Texas burglary statute qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act after United States v. Stitt, given its potent…
24-7000 Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to review the Certificate of Appealability (COA) process and whether the Federal District Court improperly procedural…
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is irreconcilable with con…
24A937 J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini Fifth Circuit 2025-03-28 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline
24-6693 Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece…
24-925 Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication due-process fifth-circuit industry-participant pecuniary-interest regulatory-board Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand with instructions to the Fifth Circuit to identify any alleged substantial pecuniary interest held …
24-915 In Re Bart Wade Reagor 2025-02-25 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay
24-6583 Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6567 Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation QP: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a four-level sentencing enhancement for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 92…
24-6407 Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction should be reversed and remanded for a new trial when a district court erroneously fails to give a jury instruction, despite suffi…
24A686 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for extension of time to file a petition for certiorari
24A669 Dajuan Martin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person satisfies the elements of a substantive federal crimi…
24-6225 Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when no hearing was provided …
24-6198 Martin Diaz-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6160 Benjamin Escobedo v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied IFP appeal-review constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying Escobedo's constitutional rights and ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from accepted judicial proceedings and pleading standards in civil rights cases…
24-573 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response Waived bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity Does a Bell v. Wolfish claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing municipal liability, and does s…
24A484 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation Whether a pro se plaintiff alleging workplace retaliation and constructive dismissal can overcome procedural dismissal and seek Supreme Court review o…
24A480 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete arrest-warrant fifth-circuit first-amendment interference-with-public-duties probable-cause speech-exception Whether a verbal argument with a police officer constitutes probable cause for arrest under Texas law when the speech is protected by the First Amendm…
24-491 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) conclusory-allegations evidentiary-standard federal-civil-procedure fifth-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit's ruling conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment standards under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a)
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity Whether the Dusky standard for competency to stand trial requires a defendant to have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against …
24A424 National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete charitable-services constitutional-rights fifth-circuit municipal-ordinance nonprofit-rights public-spaces Whether a municipal ordinance regulating public spaces violates the constitutional rights of nonprofit organizations to provide services to disadvanta…
24A305 RSBCO v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition counsel-representation fifth-circuit legal-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case involving a Louisiana partnership's …
24-5624 Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A250 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the legal standards for convicting a defendant of cyber stalking and sexual enticement under federal crimi…
24A230 Aaron Christopher Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete anders-procedure criminal-appeal direct-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied Anders v. California procedural standards in dismissing a criminal defendant's direct ap…
24A187 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Presumed Complete dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata Whether the doctrine of res judicata can bar a pro se plaintiff's claims when the prior dismissal may have resulted from ineffective legal representat…
24-5144 Richard Villareal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
24A71 Travis Adam Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing Whether a felon's guilty plea to possessing ammunition precludes subsequent constitutional challenges to the underlying conviction or sentence
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the state-created danger doctrine by recognizing the…
24-5012 Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1367 Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo and Wallace v. Taylor, which stand for the proposition that qualified immunity req…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel?
23-7682 Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(0)
23-7670 James Edward Young v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23A1091 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law Whether federal immigration authorities can override a state's own classification of a criminal offense when determining whether a conviction constitu…
23-7646 Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A1076 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly dismissed a criminal appeal without fully evaluating the defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that Petitioner failed to make the threshold showing for a certi…
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses Was Ms. Diggs's constitutional right to confrontation violated?
23-7594 Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23-7419 Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23-7421 Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23-7307 Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1157 Robert W. Remmert v. Briar Capital Working Fund Capital, L.L.C., as Assignee of South Coast Supply Company Fifth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-547 avoidance-action avoidance-powers bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-preference bankruptcy-sale estate-standing fifth-circuit res-nova standing statutory-powers Whether an avoidance action can be sold and whether the sale will confer standing on the purchaser to prosecute the avoidance action
23-7192 In Re Lionel Davis 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive …
23-7147 Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1078 Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing
23A880 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline under Supre…
23-7108 Efren Derma-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravating-role application-note application-note-2 criminal-organization criminal-role fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines supervision upward-departure Does an aggravating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1 apply, as Application Note 2 says, only if the defendant organized or supe…
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A857 Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-21 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o…
23-7027 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
23-6974 Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
23-6951 Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause
23-974 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations Whether the federal habeas corpus statute of limitations begins to run from the finality of a deferred adjudication order or the finality of the judgm…
23-6900 Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error?
23-6845 Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6855 William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its affirmance of Petitioner William Hungerford's conviction by failing to properly account for the devastating har…
23A790 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action
23-6594 Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6279 Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6242 Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6245 Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6166 Moses Moreira v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-notes criminal-activity criminal-assets fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-precedent manager-status participant-supervision sentencing-enhancement subordinate-participant supervision u-s-sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant must have exercised some direction or supervision over a subordinate participant in a criminal activity to qualify for a sentencin…
23-6147 Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut…
23-6082 Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps
23A443 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether federal courts can grant extensions of time for filing petitions for writ of certiorari based on counsel's concurrent litigation workload and …
23A434 Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether a pro se incarcerated petitioner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when awaiting a response from the Circuit Court …
23-6002 Justin Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's imposition of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 despite the petitioner's argument…
23-447 Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances can…
23-5848 In Re Naser A. Abdallah 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
23-5788 Roberto Buendia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf…
23-5756 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property Whether Honeycutt-v-United-States-requires-limiting-forfeiture-to-tainted-property-defendant-actually-acquired
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
23-364 Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender regist…
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5629 Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n)
23A246 Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit or the Fifth Circuit has subject-matter jurisdiction over patent-related disputes involving abandoned but revivable patent…
23-5555 Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5522 Javier Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing to alert Guerra about potenti…
23-5450 Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5340 Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may prohibit consideration of sentencing errors under 18 USC §3582(c)(1)(A)
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5273 Cory Joe Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights?
23-5261 Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5245 Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5229 Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5210 Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5187 Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de…
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5149 Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
23-5141 Alejandro Holguin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5120 Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation
23-5079 Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate…
23-5101 Christopher Wade v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine violates SCOTUS precedent
23-5058 Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5016 Jonathan Limbrick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason fifth-circuit guilty-plea kercheval-v-united-states plea-withdrawal rule-11 Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding no abuse of discretion in denying motion to withdraw guilty plea?
23-5004 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7896 Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7899 Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7875 J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7863 Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7796 Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7653 Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7636 Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-1105 Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court Whether an appellate court may sua sponte raise grounds for summary judgment, which were not noticed or preserved in the trial court
22-7479 Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7459 Joseph Church v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law
22-1061 Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr…
22-7444 Julio Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts
22-7420 Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7423 Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7427 Travis Blank v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights medical-care special-housing-unit standing Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying plaintiff's appeal for compelling him to pay the bill of costs
22-1036 Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco Did the Fifth Circuit's automatic application of Willis v. Cleco violate the pro se Petitioner's rights to equal-protection, meaningful-access-to-cour…
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly erred by exceeding the limited scope of the COA analysis
22-7319 Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7301 Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain Whether the pre-AEDPA presumption of correctness applies whenever the state record supports the state court's finding, or whether the federal court mu…
22-7259 Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7260 Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7218 Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7224 Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7209 Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7183 Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-6927 Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-6908 Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming a district court's reliance on a case agent's approximation of the weight of unseized cocaine based prima…
22-6894 Hiking Dupre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi…
22-6873 Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-799 Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex
22-6823 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6826 Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6750 Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-756 Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that authority that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can cl…
22-6708 Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6668 Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6493 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) unconstitutionally deprive federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
22-6317 Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6309 Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6303 Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to cons…
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements
22-6247 Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6122 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Kathryne Ford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-discretion rule-15 standing sua-sponte supervisory-power Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-6125 Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the Due Process Clause imposes an obligation on county sheriffs to release a violently dangerous schiz…
22-6063 Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
22-6054 Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy on religious expression in the execution chamber
22-5983 Cordavia Daniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors
22-5949 Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5950 Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5940 Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing Whether it was error for the Fifth Circuit to deny Solis' motion for compassionate release?
22-5879 Eugene Thurman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst…
22-370 Percy Utley v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review pleading-standard probable-cause Whether the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual application of the pleading standard as to require this Court's correction
22-5826 Alonzo Peters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated
22-5827 Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining the m…
22-5833 Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law in sentencing review
22-5647 Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing Did the Fifth Circuit misapply 28-USC-2253 by requiring a Certificate of Appealability for a Rule-60(b) motion, infringing First-Amendment and Due-Pro…
22-5606 Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5597 Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's finding that the petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently a…
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap…
22-5445 Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5446 Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-153 Wanda Bowling v. Lester John Dahlheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit gubernatorial-liability immunity-invocation judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-overreach prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court error by issuing a boiler plate opinion omitting any language addressing Petitioner's caselaw nullifying immunity invocati…
22-5387 Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5389 Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5353 Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned…
22-5234 Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5241 Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5212 Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
22-5204 Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
22-5126 Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release
22-5084 Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5059 Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5015 Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony Whether Jackson received due process
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
22-5003 Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5004 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8214 Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8196 Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
21-8149 Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8158 Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1555 Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the petitioners' allegation that the respondent exposed their DPPA-protected personal information to p…
21-1558 John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability
21-8100 Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8101 Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8102 Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8072 Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8055 In Re Shane Jeansonne 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing Writ of Mandamus
21-8058 Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8059 Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions
21-7974 Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7960 Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7962 Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the …
21-7915 Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7918 Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding that Castiblaneo failed to state a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right?
21-1460 Cynthia Sue Mary, et al. v. QEP Energy Company, fka Questar Exploration & Production Company Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied continuing-trespass disgorgement-of-profits federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit louisiana-law oil-and-gas-pipelines summary-judgment trespassing-pipelines Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously fail to determine and apply the substantive law of Louisiana with respect to 'disgorgement of profits' from trespass…
21-1442 In Re Adriano Kruel Budri 2022-05-16 Denied appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i…
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
21-7852 Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under…
21-7837 Cedric D. Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court
21-7813 Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7786 Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7721 Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7723 Freddie Galan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w…
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case so departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for this …
21-7702 Marvin Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on sentencing enhancements
21-7706 Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing Did the district court err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea?
21-7621 Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7622 Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7612 Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law
21-7503 Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1280 In Re J. Cory Cordova 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority
21-7291 Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7256 Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7258 Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7196 Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7174 Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7147 Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7149 Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion?
21-7094 Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of appe…
21-7032 Adrian Hunt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
21-6951 Jacob Allen Adair v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps Whether—in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit—the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offens…
21-6947 Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6887 Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6812 Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to grant a certificate of appealability when the record showed Velasquez received ineffective assistance o…
21-6762 Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's review of the facts related to a mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law
21-962 In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. 2022-01-04 Denied abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, did the Fifth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts wit…
21-6732 Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate Has the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively established a procedural rule to efface, abridge, or abrogate the Supreme Court's mandate(s), notic…
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict
21-6572 Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6582 Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6454 Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an important matter and thu…
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-6403 Garland Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied IFP application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for …
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims
21-6295 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst…
21-6145 Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6155 Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6124 Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6131 Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5957 Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the decision of the United States Magistrate Judge denying M…
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory …
21-5848 Zackie Thomas Reed, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-v-romano criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit narcotics narcotics-violation preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard revocation supervised-release Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard utilized by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a supervised release revoca…
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel
21-5715 Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off…
21-5735 Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process …
21-366 Michael Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347
21-367 Paula Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Questions Presented
21-345 Manpreet Singh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel?
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s…
21-5514 Diandra Marie Harvey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(f) constructive-possession discretionary-review fifth-circuit firearm supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an eligibility for safety-valve reduction
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin ac…
21-5234 Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5241 Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5219 Bryan James Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction
21-5172 Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5174 Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5175 Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5158 Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5096 Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5072 Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…
21-5043 Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
21-5029 Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1777 Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community
20-8325 Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions?
20-8197 Samuel Earl Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit split
20-8033 Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a request for COA on an important question of federal law regarding the trial judge's incorrect explanation of th…
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Whether violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution is harmless if the specific definition of the conduct was done by the court
20-7884 Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7829 Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7788 Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler Is the Fifth Circuit effectively overturning the Supreme Court and its own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability?
20-7731 Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery Whether Texas robbery under Tex. Penal Code § 29.02(a) is categorically violent under the ACCA's elements clause
20-7678 Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 GVR IFP 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA)
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed?
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not…
20-7596 Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress Did the federal district court err in dismissing the habeas petition without considering the petitioner's motion to amend
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7255 Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7128 Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7112 Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1037 Wanda Bowling v. John Roach Fifth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit's panel's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S. Supr…
20-6973 Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca…
20-6921 Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-6789 Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) survives Wilson v. Sellers and whether the court must consider the impact of all mitiga…
20-6768 Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu…
20-6738 Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense?
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA…
20-6687 William James Jonas, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou…
20-6699 Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6692 Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6656 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to review an unpreserved factual argument for plain error
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds
20-6631 Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o…
20-6609 Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6463 Alex Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6452 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6424 Deloyd Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an 'enterprise' under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared…
20-6399 Duwayne Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen…
20-6327 Terry Charles Carroll v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court Whether the standard of review on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
20-6230 Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase?
20-558 Jon D. Adams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-6404e case-law fifth-circuit interest-abatement judicial-review lee-v-commissioner statutory-interpretation tax-abatement tax-law tax-procedure Whether the Taxpayer was entitled to interest abatement under 26 U.S.C.A. § 6404(e)
20-6042 Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6047 Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6004 Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5998 Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered…
20-5940 Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5853 Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in denying my motion (Stanles) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5738 Willie Hugh Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5711 David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation proceedin…
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal apply the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioner(s) righ…
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5609 In Re Gary Wayne Barnes 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction Can the claim of Actual innocence be reviewed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and 2…
20-5590 Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' when Chacon-Lara argu…
20-263 Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f…
20-5543 Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5516 Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim
20-5470 German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5423 Edwin Jassiel Peralta-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentencing-exposure Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' — Failure to Explain …
20-5432 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the post-conviction waiver in plea agreement bars relief in Johnson-related § 2255 petition
20-5437 Wendell Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars him from the relief sought in his Johnson-related § 2255 Petition
20-5376 Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5319 Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious belie…
20-5292 Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
20-5250 Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court …
20-5219 Binh Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5227 Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-5191 Joshua Edwards v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process elements-of-crime elements-of-offense fifth-circuit jury-instructions trial-defense Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when it held that the district court's failure to instruct the jury on the elements o…
20-5056 George Cortez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5019 Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of…
19-8790 Christina Ann Whichard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-8655 Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8523 Christian James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of justice…
19-8503 Darieus Malik Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence
19-8428 Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation Was the appointment of counsel valid?
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus,…
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes
19-8128 Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the 'extreme genre of cases' to warrant…
19-8129 Charles Ben Bounds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Sentence Enhancement
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim
19-8019 Efrain Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error
19-1121 Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii Is the Fifth Circuit's restrictive 'ultimate adverse employment action' doctrine in conflict with Title VII protections?
19-7914 Lucas James Moss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-7931 Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the defendant's sentence by concluding there was no unconstitutional motive for the government's failure …
19-7903 Alfred Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful
19-1093 Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White Fifth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni…
19-7771 Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-7790 Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Relisted (6)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity
19-1042 Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua…
19-7684 Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7596 Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower…
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
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t…
19-7454 Kenneth James Barfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts Where the Government offers no evidence at sentencing in response to an objection to a factual assertion in the presentence report that increases a se…
19-7437 Tony Sparks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama does not extend to sentences imposed upon ju…
19-7446 Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e…
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-907 Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective
19-889 Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi…
19-7164 Dominic Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four…
19-7051 Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault
19-6932 Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court?
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion?
19-6935 Rickie James King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6687 Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6620 John Kevin Waldrip v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to vacate the $15,000 special assessments
19-6511 Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing What is the meaning of 'reliable evidence' for establishing the amount of restitution under the Mandatory Victim's Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663A?
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether in denying a COA, the Fifth Circuit's methodology in the Gardner opinion is in conflict with Wilson v. Sellers and Miller-El
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ?
19-403 Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (2) agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming
19-6021 Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmance of the petitioner's guilty-plea sentence violated petitioner's due process rights
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the Fifth Circuit's 'unreasonable application' inquiry proper?
19-249 Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers Is the grant of an employee stock option a 'sale' of a security under the Securities Act of 1933?
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent Was DAVIS improperly included?
19-5574 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch…
19-5538 Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons…
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit…
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
19-5185 William Eric Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner?
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut…
19-5073 In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz 2019-07-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The Fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244(b),(3),(D), when more tha…
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
18A1357 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition…
18A1359 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance Whether a health insurance provider can be subject to federal court jurisdiction in a dispute involving the interpretation of a benefits plan under ER…
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli…
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-9453 Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciotta's appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability
18-1370 Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci…
18-9051 Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland…
18-8910 Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent?
18-1323 June Medical Services L.L.C., et al. v. Stephen Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights admitting-privileges constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent undue-burden whole-woman's-health whole-womans-health womens-health Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision upholding Louisiana's law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hosp…
18-8795 Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause?
18-8775 Samuel William Maines v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration?
18-8603 Gralyn Leon White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to apply the holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5 Cir. 2018) to Hobbs Act…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California
18-8280 Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Due Process Standard of Jackson v. Virginia requires a court to consider all evidence, including evidence inconsistent with guilt, in deci…
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits?
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit has failed to apply the Supreme Court's ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina to supervised release Internet restrictions, …
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter?
18-7447 Christopher E. Lemon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement
18-7410 Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour…
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a court may indulge 'post hoc rationalization' for counsel's decision making that contradicts the avai…
18-902 Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application Whether a habeas corpus application should be granted when a state court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly e…
18-7304 Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable
18-7252 Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d…
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund…
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing
18-7111 Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri…
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition Proper-standard-for-Rule-60(b)-motion
18-6984 Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S.
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs…
18-6904 Oree Roberson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether the govern…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c…
18-6600 Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness?
18-6524 Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it…
18-6435 John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of 'ineffective assistance o…
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree?
18-373 Floyd Rose v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with…
18-6066 Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den…
18-6061 Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in…
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness?
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic…
18-5716 Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP 5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law Whether the district court and 5th circuit court of appeals erred in denying Ray a certificate of appealability
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto?
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability?
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis
18-5324 Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a rational jury could have found each essential element of the offense of transmitting a malicious code, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5…
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights
18-95 Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners' appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed
18-5236 In Re Ferlando Esco 2018-07-13 Denied IFP ' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to compel the Fifth Circuit to decide the merits of a request for certificate of appealability regarding two d…
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling Was Honish's first state habeas writ 'application' properly filed within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), and required to be tolled?
24A239 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete bail-pending-appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit pro-se-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for bail pending appeal and potentially violating his constitutional due process r…