gang-membership

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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
24-7378	Margarita Leanos v. Allen Dills, Warden	Georgia	2025-06-06	Denied	IFP	appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge discriminatory-evidence gang-membership ineffective-assistance witness-testimony	Whether appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge the admission of discriminatory gang membership evidence through a s…
23-6820	Marvin Carcamo v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2024-02-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines	Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U…
22-6862	Benjamin Young v. Alabama	Alabama	2023-02-24	Denied	IFP	capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase	Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial
22-6790	Alexis Jaimez v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2023-02-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering	Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a 'foot soldier' in a gang and therefore …
18-9638	Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas	Texas	2019-06-12	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness	Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…