| 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… |
| 22-7731 |
Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it 're-branded' a failure to prove an essential element of the government's methamphetamine case against Mr. Jones beyo… |
| 20-6308 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-7887 |
Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law |
Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent in Parker v. Commissioner becomes unassailable in holding that the Sixteenth Amendment provided the needed constit… |