| 24-5549 |
Norman Paul Felts v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance legal-abandonment pro-se-representation timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit should have considered an untimely appeal due to alleged attorney abandonment |
| 23-7762 |
Christopher McPherson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in upholding the convictions on Count V and Count IV |
| 23-7654 |
Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine |
| 23-7071 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a sh… |
| 22-7583 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Sergeant Carsto, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice procedural-due-process standing stay stay-violation |
Whether the actions of Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges and the United States District Court for the District of Rock Hill violated the petitioner's cons… |
| 22-7318 |
Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St… |
| 22-7251 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue |
When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in error to… |
| 22-490 |
Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's… |
| 22-5476 |
John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers |
Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland-v-Washington |
| 22-5317 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022 |
| 21-6231 |
Christopher Lee Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-375(B) are divisible into three offenses |
| 20-8036 |
Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict |
Whether the jury should be required to return a special verdict form addressing all essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), in tha… |
| 20-7702 |
Covia Dzell Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense |
| 20-6196 |
Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in admitting inadmissible and prejudicial hearsay testimony |
| 19-7744 |
Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-9755 |
Sammy Redi Araya v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
business-records due-process fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence identification insufficient-evidence perjury perjury-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's failure to investigate and conclusively determine if perjury infected the trial |
| 18-9461 |
Antonio Tillmon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts |
| 18-9133 |
Abdul Karim Bangura v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement withdrawal |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 18-6577 |
Ernesto Wilfredo Solano Godoy v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records strickland strickland-standard strickland-test sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-5527 |
Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the alleged Brady violation was not material |