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25-6791 David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States First Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t…
25-6726 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2026-02-05 Pending IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante requir…
25A858 Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admission harmless-error sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause requires a reviewing court to apply a strict harmless error standard when evaluating the admission …
25-6478 Jeremy Edward Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination Did the Third Circuit err by assuming a Miranda violation was harmless and not determining whether a Miranda violation occurred?
25-6442 Michael Hinds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error Does the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) require a different inquiry for determining structural errors in sentencing, involving a detailed analysis o…
25-6439 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's statement asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error renders that error…
25-6416 Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court can impose a special condition of supervised release without explanation and when such failure to justify the condition is co…
25A717 Marquise Graham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
25A651 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi…
25A650 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-argument fifth-amendment griffin-violation harmless-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing argument that implicitly reference a defendant's choice not to testify violate the Fifth Amendment's pr…
25-605 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu…
25-6141 Mark Abercrombie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion …
25-6090 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error Whether a Fifth Amendment charging error for an aggravated offense is structural error and how harmless error review should be applied in the guilty p…
25-6040 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2025-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment state-law trial-counsel May a state court that reaches and decides an asserted violation of the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that has not been waived or forfeited unde…
25-5998 Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States are structural errors or subject to harmless/plain error review, and if plain error review applies, how…
25-5991 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs…
25-524 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs…
25A456 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic…
25-5914 Martins Inalegwu v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-20 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl…
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether an 11-person federal criminal jury verdict can be considered harmless error under the Sixth Amendment, contrary to historical jury practice
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
25A394 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence Whether a federal court may assess the harmlessness of a Giglio error by considering post-trial DNA evidence not presented to the original jury, rathe…
25-5788 Kalup Allen Born v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure downward-departure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who admits to every needed element for conviction but challenges acquitted conduct has 'clearly demonstrated acceptance of respons…
25-5743 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error Does sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense qualify as structural error under Supreme Court precedent, and if harmless-e…
25-5738 Mark H. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2025-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence…
25-5650 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger errors structural, and what is the proper harmless-error test when a defendant is found guil…
25-5344 Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement Does the Court's Erlinger decision require a jury to pass on the three separate occasions factor in the Armed Criminal Convictions Act (ACCA), and if …
25A179 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit improperly supplanted the jury's fact-finding role and violated due process by granting a new trial on damages in a patent…
25-5333 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding of g…
25-5267 Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination Whether a state supreme court's harmless-error analysis violates Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment protections by improperly substituting appel…
25-5252 Eric David Marrufo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to an impartial jury by failing to instruct the jury about inadmissible testim…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense by arbitrarily removing Evidence Rule 801(d)(2)(D) from the availab…
25-5151 J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use 'extreme caution' before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error
25-32 Mason Binion v. United States District of Columbia 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-obligation criminal-competency defendant-rights due-process harmless-error trial-court-procedure Whether a procedurally inadequate inquiry into a criminal defendant's competence is rendered constitutionally harmless if defense counsel does not con…
25A31 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should establish a definitive standard for harmless-error review of constitutional violations in criminal cases, particularl…
25-5041 Geovani Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals violates due process by declining to recall a mandate where a petitioner demonstrates conviction of a non-existent offense …
25-5018 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error Whether Apprendi errors, including Erlinger violations, should be treated as trial errors subject to the Neder harmless-error test or as sentencing er…
24A1265 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by permitting prosecutorial and police vouching for a witness's cre…
24-1295 Brandon Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution Whether a district judge impermissibly blends judicial and prosecutorial roles by urging investigation and then presiding over the trial, whether an a…
24A1181 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
24-7290 Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure Whether Apprendi errors under the Armed Career Criminal Act should be treated as trial or sentencing errors, and whether a firearms possession statute…
24-1156 Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. Nevada 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether discrimination against a potential alternate juror requires reversal without a showing of prejudice, or whether courts can review such claims …
24-6942 John Sexton v. Florida Florida 2025-04-08 Denied IFP capital-punishment court-witness harmless-error mitigation-specialist sixth-amendment structural-error Did the state trial court commit structural error by violating the Defendant's Sixth Amendment-secured right to autonomy in his capital penalty procee…
24-6886 Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit…
24-951 Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review Does the appellant bear the burden of proving prejudicial error in a civil case, or does the burden shift to the appellee to demonstrate harmless erro…
24-6657 Leopoldo Villareal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether an appellate court should rely on a sentencing judge's routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite a Sentencing …
24-6204 Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo…
24-6038 Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-case harmless-error juror-prejudice mitigation-evidence strickland-prejudice wiggins-standard How should the 'one juror' standard of prejudice set forth in Wiggins v. Smith be applied where mitigation evidence would have led to both positive an…
24-5897 Justin Jermaine Johnson v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-admission harmless-error mistrial witness-testimony Whether the admission of investigator testimony via Skype, pre-death victim photos, and denial of mistrial constitute harmless error or violate due pr…
24-5824 Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals commit legal error in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability by finding that a jurist of reason would not debate t…
24-5747 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana 2024-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a State violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by upholding a criminal conviction obtained through non-unanimous jury verdicts and claim…
24-366 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement Whether Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors or sentencing errors and whether Almendarez-Torres should be overruled
24-5553 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p…
24-292 Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review When a district court's findings of fact are unsupported by the evidence the district court relied on, may a court of appeals affirm based on other ev…
24-5485 Onofre Serrano v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP critical-stage due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the voluntariness of a criminal defendant's waiver of counsel and the potential ineffective assistance of cou…
24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional?
24-5225 Nidal M. Hasan v. United States Armed Forces 2024-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue…
24-5216 Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to…
24-5212 Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law Did the Circuit Court apply the correct harmless-error standard and properly consider the record evidence of prejudice?
24-5189 Brandon Alexander v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof direct-appeal evidence-admission harmless-error inadmissible-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment When a defendant asserts IAC on direct appeal in Ohio for failing to object to inadmissible evidence and is able to demonstrate deficient performance,…
24A66 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete apprendi-error drug-felony harmless-error jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether an Alleyne or Apprendi error involving a sentencing enhancement should be reviewed under the harmless error standard of Neder or the more stri…
24-5093 David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Due-process
24-5076 Chi Meng Yang v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of 18-U.S.C.-666 that was subsequently narrowed by the Supreme Court…
24-23 Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) certiorari confrontation-clause constitutional-error error-based-approach guilt-based-approach harmless-error sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals err in applying the guilt-based approach, rather than the error-based approach, to assess the harmlessness of the confrontati…
23-7819 LaShonda O'Neill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of the District Court's fact-finding and sentencing enhancements
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?
23-7649 Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-7605 Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-split federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-factfinding-role law-enforcement-witness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony percipient-knowledge witness-testimony Whether law enforcement agent testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 based on overall investigation knowledge is permissible
23-1255 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of …
23-7597 William Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles…
23A1069 Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete bruton-rule codefendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-error harmless-error sixth-amendment Whether a constitutional error in admitting a nontestifying codefendant's statement can be deemed harmless beyond a reasonable doubt under the Sixth A…
23-7512 Dallas M. Acoff v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence
23-1218 Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard conflict with this Court's harmless-error standard?
23-1194 Erik Hentzen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Can Strickland v. Washington's 'prejudice prong' be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level ac…
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error
23-6992 Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact…
23-6938 Frank Garcia v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP accused-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exoneration harmless-error post-conviction Can the harmless-error doctrine be applied to DNA evidence that has the sole ability to clear, convict, or exonerate the accused?
23-6904 Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli…
23-928 Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) requires the Government to prove that a defendant intended to help that alien evade dete…
23-6831 Thomas E. Creech v. Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP clemency clemency-hearing constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process false-evidence harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Does the State's intentional presentation of false evidence at a clemency hearing violate due process?
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…
23-6809 Warren Lee Mackey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony Whether this Court should adopt a test that vacates a conviction where there is a 'reasonable probability' that improper bolstering or vouching testim…
23-908 Woojin Cho v. New York New York 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility Whether it is constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand?
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense?
23-6711 Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error
23-6673 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care Whether the stringent harmless error language from Neder applies to Ruan-based jury instruction error?
23-6681 Danny Lowe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking Is the jury instruction that misstates the mens rea of the offense harmless where the sole issue at trial is the defendant's criminal intent?
23-6567 Jonathan David Wilke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture harmless-error lineup photo-array witness-identification Was the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision an erroneous application of law?
23-6505 Kheungkham Vongphakdy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination Whether a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings violates the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
23A640 Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth Second Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction Whether a state court's application of the harmless error doctrine to post-conviction DNA evidence violates a criminal defendant's constitutional righ…
23-6420 Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias Whether a Confrontation Clause error can ever be harmless when an accused is prevented from cross-examining the key government witness—a witness who s…
23-6330 Raymond Ghaloustian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harmless-error harrison-v-united-states miranda-rights miranda-warning opening-brief Does a defendant forfeit reliance upon Harrison by failing to anticipate in his opening brief on appeal that the Government would argue violations of …
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 8.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error
23-650 Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis must decline to find constitutional alternative theory error harmless
23-631 Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error Whether harmless-error analysis of jury instructions that omitted or misdefined an element must decline to find that constitutional error harmless
23-6146 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment
23-6106 Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence Whether a court should review the cumulative effect of preserved and forfeited errors to determine if they had a substantial influence on the verdict
23-529 Matthew Hayko v. Indiana Indiana 2023-11-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility…
23-5993 Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial …
23-5865 Jason Dix v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t…
23-5805 Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a…
23-5767 Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP complainant-credibility credibility-determination expert-testimony harmless-error lay-testimony sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Did the Fifth Circuit err in its review of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim and its evaluation of Strickland prejudice when it determined that repea…
23-5686 David Calhoun v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the district court's resolution of the petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process claim was correct, given the government's multiple breaches of…
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat
23-5459 Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony Whether the violation of the Confrontation Clause as explicated in Douglas v. Alabama was harmless error
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorrect…
23-5391 Walter Raul Maguina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand
23-5371 Judith Tompson v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP body-camera-evidence due-process fair-trial harmless-error legal-licensing police-misconduct police-prosecution privacy-rights rsa-105-d:2 statutory-violation whether-nh-supreme-court-should-allow-nh-district-court-judge-to-prosecute-cases
23-5131 Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability Whether Rehaif error occurred and the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to remand the case
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
23-5059 Savon Hardaway v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea harmless-error mens-rea plea-agreement rehaif-advisement rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-error Whether Mr. Hardaway made a sufficient showing that if he had been properly advised, there is a reasonable probability that he would not have pleaded …
23-5049 Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor vouched for their witnesses
23-5038 Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Relisted (13)IFP aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra…
22-7784 Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review When should evidentiary errors in a federal criminal trial be evaluated for their cumulative impact on the fundamental fairness of the trial?
22-7754 Maurice Hunt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under The Commerce Clause
22-7308 Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof What standard of proof must the government meet to prove a preserved Guidelines error is harmless?
22-7284 Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative interstate commerce elements constitute separate offenses or alternative mea…
22-7288 Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert…
22-7262 Alfred Coppage v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing Whether trial court abused discretion by hearing motion for substitution of judge
22-980 Neil Paul Noble v. Texas Texas 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation a fundamental federal constitutional right that should be made a…
22-966 Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurious …
22-7035 Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release whether-the-fourth-circuit-erred-by-applying-a-plainly-unreasonable-standard-of-review
22-7029 Roger Keeling v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found 'ample,' rather than 'weighty,' evidence of guilt c…
22-7030 John Gabriel Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have …
22-7014 Michael Hucks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid…
22-6853 Joshua Seekins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defen…
22-6835 Deon'te Reed v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in disregarding the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead applying a per se harmless error test based o…
22-6840 David Omar Caraballo v. Florida Florida 2023-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing Whether the district court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's points of argument as presented on direct appeal
22-6751 Ernest Kyle Dyer v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review conditional-guilty-plea federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-11(a)(2) harmless-error motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining prevail When a defendant enters a conditional guilty plea, reserving the right to appeal an adverse decision on a motion to suppress, what harmless-error stan…
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations whether-the-sixth-circuit's-ruling-merits-summary-reversal
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
22-6519 Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defendant…
22-6490 Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2023-01-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order Whether a state can use a void restraining order as the foundation of a criminal prosecution without violating due process
22-6491 Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification Whether the subsequent in-court identification violated the defendant's due process rights given the district court's failure to conduct its gatekeepi…
22-6467 Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct Whether the erroneous jury instruction on knowledge requirement constituted harmless error
22-6424 Trevis Thompson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Where deliberating jurors receive external information that a criminal defendant had committed prior bad acts, does the dissemination of such informat…
22-6394 Van Raymond Brollini v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent
22-6316 Kalvin Walker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th…
22-488 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect was harmless
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error Did the court of appeals violate the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and discovery?
22-5788 Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff…
22-246 Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Amici (4) blind-trust financial-interest harmless-error judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp stock-divestment whether-placing-stock-in-a-blind-trust-satisfies-455(f)
22-242 Cyrano R. Irons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul…
22-5541 Edwin Pawlowski v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the Defendant's right to re-cross examination in light of new matter and evidence presented by the…
22-5450 Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in finding that Crump received effective assistance of trial counsel
22-5429 Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether …
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal…
22-5028 Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines…
21-8288 William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon Oregon 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure Did the oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de…
21-7943 Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado Colorado 2022-05-23 Denied IFP colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication whether-confrontation-rights-were-violated
21-7913 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness Right-to-self-representation
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?
21-7870 Greg Cantoni v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion Which standard must be applied to determine whether a Jencks Act violation is prejudicial or harmless?
21-7853 Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to accept the State's concessions of error conflict with this Court's decisions?
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
21-7696 In Re Stephen Harmon 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, which is not a harml…
21-7487 Dion Fisher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress
21-1273 Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio Ohio 2022-03-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire Whether the exclusion of a criminal defendant from individual voir dire proceedings is a structural error requiring automatic reversal
21-7364 In Re David Lopez 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court habeas harmless-error judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-prohibition Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of prohibition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1651(a) to prevent further violations of the petitioner's c…
21-7346 Avian Brule v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
21-7276 Julio Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary
21-7267 William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment Due-process,jury-instructions,provocative-act-murder,intervening-cause,malice,harmless-error
21-1179 Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam…
21-7214 Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review Whether the petitioner had a claim of actual innocence that was not fairly considered by the lower courts
21-1082 Tarresse Leonard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal …
21-7033 Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated
21-6970 Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test…
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-6860 Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony When an action of the court causes a harmless error to become plain error, is there due process for the defendant to apply to the court?
21-6844 Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr…
21-993 Willard Anthony v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-01-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t…
21-6772 Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire Whether the Fifth Circuit's newly created rule under the principle of 'interpretati logica' allowing rehabilitation of a biased juror is contrary to t…
21-6736 Steven R. Henson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-28 GVR Relisted (2)IFP actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w…
21-6587 Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding the district court's errors in admitting police 'gang expert' and other hearsay testimony were h…
21-6534 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained b…
21-6492 Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error Whether a trial court's error of forcing a criminal defendant to testify before hearing all of the prosecution's evidence requires automatic reversal …
21-6334 Christopher Jason Henry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory
21-6272 Igor Perlov v. California California 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-charge due-process harmless-error jury-instruction reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Is it a violation of the Due Process Clause and defendant's Sixth Amendment right to require the State to prove a criminal charge beyond a reasonable …
21-6240 Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose…
21-6200 Jesus Ruiz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless
21-6222 Marc E. Bercoon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP bank-of-nova-scotia-v-us chapman-v-california constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Feritiener's rights were violated
21-6217 Alberto Grajales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) may be sustained b…
21-6171 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be exc…
21-6123 Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error Whether the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflicts with the Six…
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Whether the state court's harmless error determination was unreasonable under 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1)-and-(2)
21-637 William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick Second Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial Whether the Second Circuit created a circuit split and denied the state court judgment the deference mandated by 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1) in granting habea…
21-6115 Jaime Mayorga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack …
21-6116 Christopher David Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error oath-of-office public-employment standing Whether the conflict between Mechanik and Bank of Nova Scotia invite arbitrary decisions from the lower courts
21-6002 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr…
21-5989 Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review Whether the harmless error standard should apply to a failure to instruct the jury on a contested element of the offense
21-5826 Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a…
21-5758 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause may be sustained bas…
21-391 Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte…
21-5635 Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence Did the appeals court err in holding that no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice resulted from officer Pagan's erroneous testimony about Hair…
21-5554 Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts Whether the state court abrogated this court's constitutional holdings in its application of the legal standard of 'fundamental fairness shocking to u…
21-5539 James Takchuan Woo v. Colorado Colorado 2021-08-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights continuance-request discovery-violation discovery-violations effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial harmless-error right-against-unlawful-search unlawful-search video-surveillance Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Woo's constitutional rights to effective-assistance-of-counsel, fair-trial, right-again…
21-5324 Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether an explanation inconsistent with Rule 32(i)(3)(B) can inoculate an otherwise unreasonable sentence from appellate review
21-183 Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause reaches any conspiracy whose object is to interfere with any lawful government function, even if not targeted…
21-5318 Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review Which harmless error standard applies to a habeas corpus challenge under 28 U.S.C. §2255?
21-5142 Michael Angelo Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea Whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea
21-5016 Salvador Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a pr…
21-5009 Eddie Tarver v. Maryland Maryland 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from a c…
20-8424 James Erik Godiksen v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's…
20-8350 Curtis Lee Holliman v. Texas Texas 2021-06-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error standing Whether the state of Texas acknowledged that attorney Kirby Taylor and the petitioner were in a sexual romantic relationship for 10 years prior to the…
20-8346 Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) entitles a defendant to relief, irrespective of whether the …
20-1709 David Ming Pon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an 'overwhelming evide…
20-8264 Jeremy Hough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr…
20-8203 Dasheme Kareme Hosley v. Rick Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument due-process harmless-error judicial-ratification jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-misstatement prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court trial-procedure Should courts presume that the jury followed the trial court's correct instruction at the end of trial even if the trial judge expressly ratified a mi…
20-8119 Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon Oregon 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a…
20-8101 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california Whether a federal court may disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead ask only what a hypothetical jury instructed on a valid…
20-8075 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony Is a new trial required when an appellate court assumes a trial court's admission of irrelevant victim impact testimony was error?
20-1605 Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA cases
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
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
20-7918 Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that 'mere outcome determination' is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington is…
20-7899 Christopher Middleton v. Georgia Georgia 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa…
20-7872 Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300?
20-7856 Dennis Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding harmless error
20-7782 Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference Has a petitioner substantially shown the denial of a constitutional right warranting issuance of a COA
20-7757 James L. Toliver v. Florida Florida 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous jury instructions have been given?
20-7638 Cesar Gomez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury harmless-error indictment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court applied the harmless-error review in an 'objectively unreasonable' manner
20-7611 Jamar Garrison v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit should-a-writ-of-certiorari-issue-to-review-the-brady-and-rule-16-due-process-violations
20-7556 Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review Did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct was harmless?
20-7528 Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied IFP appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing In conditional plea appeals, is an error harmless when (1) the error did not affect the defendant's choice to plead guilty; or (2) the error did not a…
20-7492 Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence
20-7341 James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Can the suppression of material evidence helpful to the defense ever be harmless error, not least when the exclusion violated the Sixth Amendment's ri…
20-1161 Edward J. Kosinski v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud
20-7189 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-7126 Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a jur…
20-1057 Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for 'harmless error' based on a rationale not present in the administr…
20-992 John Vigna v. Maryland Maryland 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error Whether the denial of an accused request to introduce credible and relevant evidence that directly rebuts and contradicts the prior bad acts evidence …
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…
20-6624 Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California California 2020-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error Right-to-testify
20-6494 Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility Whether erroneously admitted evidence critical to proving an element of the charged offense can be deemed harmless based on the appellate court's dete…
20-6409 Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-6374 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp…
20-6336 Eric Troy Snell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under 'assumed error harmle…
20-6185 Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error Does a statement facially incriminate a person for purposes of Bruton Confrontation Clause analysis when one defendant says that as a group they took …
20-6191 Daniel Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit sexual-abuse victim-age Was the error in the jury instruction harmless?
20-6179 Hai Duong v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation doyle-v-ohio due-process equal-protection harmless-error miranda-rights post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Was Duong denied due process and equal protection
20-6097 Francisco J. Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP commodities-fraud criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions scienter Should CERTIORARI be granted to review whether the failure to instruct a state jury on lack of scienter could be harmless-beyond a reasonable doubt in…
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether the Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than Huddleston v. U.S. under Rules 403 and 404(b) in civil polic…
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha…
20-5792 Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties
20-5730 Jimmie Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl…
20-5619 James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt …
20-5453 Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t…
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence, should a Court of Appeals exercise its…
20-127 Douglas Jason Way v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived drug-analogue federal-regulation harmless-error knowledge knowledge-standard mcfadden-precedent ninth-circuit rebuttal state-law state-law-compliance Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contradicted the holding of McFadden v. United States 576 U.S. 186 (2015)
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
20-5217 David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy results in prejudice?
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5231 S. T., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Vermont 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare constitutional-error due-process family-law harmless-error parental-rights termination Whether the State of Vermont may apply the 'reasonable probability' harmless error standard in assessing due process error in a termination of parenta…
20-5183 Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund's substantive and procedural due process rights
20-60 Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, unilat…
20-5150 Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous?
20-5090 Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-5073 Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless
20-5078 Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute
20-5005 Archie Lee Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error plea-withdrawal substantial-rights Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of the Petitioner's motion to withdraw his plea and was it was it an abuse of di…
19-8743 Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8719 Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity whether-the-eleventh-circuit-entered-a-decision-that-conflicts-with-this-court's-precedent
19-8706 Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness Will this Supreme Court permit Texas prosecutors' claims of 'mistake and inadvertence' to excuse the denial of substantial constitutional rights?
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8658 Garian King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error Whether Rehaif error is structural and requires automatic reversal, or is subject to harmless error review
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-8547 Joseph D. Blueford v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial harmless-error impartial-tribunal judicial-discretion jury jury-competence sixth-amendment Does a petitioner have the right to a fair-and-impartial-trial when a juror does not hear-or-understand-the-evidence
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor's remarks during rebuttal of injecting personal opinion and vouching for the credibility of a witness
19-8440 Katherine O'Neal v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment Whether a constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless based on the strength of the untainted proof or the error's contribution to th…
19-8411 Charles Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rule o…
19-8360 Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland Ninth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony Question not identified
19-8158 Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa…
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8025 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Arkansas Court of Appeals erred in finding that the admission of an allegedly involuntary statement was harmless error
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede…
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
19-7988 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p…
19-7942 Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under the C…
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted of an offense for which he was not indicted, and has preserved the issues of constitutional error, what factors should a…
19-7492 Inger L. Jensen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2255 harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claim
19-7466 In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez 2020-01-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu…
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error
19-7452 Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio…
19-7453 Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-7238 Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights Whether the trial court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70-day time limit is subject to harmle…
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-7116 Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-824 Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility Whether a Blakely error is harmless when the jury returned a compromise verdict and the sentencing enhancement at issue required a subjective assessme…
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
19-6923 Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review Whether the conceded admission of gang hearsay evidence in violation of the Confrontation Clause was prejudicial
19-6913 Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
19-6907 Robert Hendricks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error Isn't the erroneous admission of racially charged prejudicial evidence a structural error requiring automatic reversal or, at a minimum, one that requ…
19-6747 Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection?
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-6735 Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have undermined the constitutional principles of the right to a public trial by adopting a test that requires a lesser governme…
19-642 Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral Sixth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas revie…
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no…
19-572 Ravneet Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied civil-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury jury-instructions standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, upon invalidating one of two alternative theories of liability presented to a jury, the reviewing court should ask if there is 'sufficient ev…
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis or structural error
19-6375 Giam Nguyen, Anna Bagoumian, and Donovan Simmons v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process deliberate-ignorance due-process harmless-error jury-instructions medicare-fraud reverse-404(b) reverse-404b-evidence Whether the petitioners were deprived of their Fifth Amendment right of due process to present a defense
19-6280 Jose Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal…
19-6277 Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v…
19-456 John Buncich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo…
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review Does the government meet its burden to prove that a sentencing error is harmless under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(a) if it shows that it is more probable tha…
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 ?
19-6068 Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering …
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
19-5998 Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors to physically prevent counsel from intervening in his cli…
19-5947 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt was dependen…
19-5948 Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents?
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the harmless error analysis to a jury instruction that implicitly included critical elements of the crime charge…
19-5833 Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's Constitutional Due Process right to be pre…
19-5767 Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review
19-5681 Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence …
19-208 Mark A. Beckham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review When is it constitutionally permissible for an appellate court to conclude that a district court's refusal to instruct the jury as to two elements of …
19-5631 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's decis…
19-5613 Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error Whether the district court's reliance on a clearly erroneous fact in selecting the defendant's sentence was harmless error
19-5566 Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chapman v. California, could the harmless error analysis applied by the State as to the self-defense jury…
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly determine that California's Dixon rule procedurally barred Balint's claim that he was denied his constitutional righ…
19-5458 Samantha Winter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search whether-miranda-rights-were-violated
19-5436 Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o…
19-5432 Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents
19-5411 Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50…
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5370 Pedro Medina Castillon v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims
19-5317 Alonzo Vernon v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra?
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper?
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-61 Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court's usurpation of the Attorney General's power to appoint a private attorney to represent the interests of the United States—ov…
19-5058 In Re Artur Tchibassa 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by refusing to apply the Reyes-Requena savings clause jurisprudence
19-5010 Andrew Nelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the…
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-1571 Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Kansas Supreme Court failed to consider the prejudicial constitutional errors committed by trial counsel and applied an incorrect standard…
18-1528 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship Improper-jury-instruction-on-element-of-offense
18-1476 Randy Lee Carney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and …
18-9423 Ayanna Angle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether a court of appeals should grant a new trial when it finds that the district court failed to complete all three steps of the Batson analysis
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard
18-9299 Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether Apprendi error at sentencing is harmless based on the entire record or only whether the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum
18-9227 Robert Sparks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment cross-examination due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony harmless-error jury-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct Does cross-examination of a prosecution's expert cure all harm from that expert's repeated false testimony during a capital punishment proceeding, and…
18-9120 Russell Frey v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance
18-9079 Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific…
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a…
18-8998 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation?
18-8999 Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove a defendant knowingly intends his communications to be a threat
18-1306 Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-04-16 Denied Amici (3) advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence
18-8773 Emmanuely Germain v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error Is the omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions harmless if there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction of a rel…
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A)
18-8664 Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida Florida 2019-04-02 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florida, …
18-8665 Michael Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t…
18-8677 Patrick Lloyd v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez Whether Dominguez Benitez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated
18-8573 Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued
18-8565 Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington Whether a trial attorney's failure to object to the omission of a required jury instruction raises the burden of proof on direct appeal, where the out…
18-8570 Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Third Circuit's precedential decision created a conflict among its conflicting decision in Bey v. Superintendent Greene, SCI 856 F3d 230; …
18-8476 Anthony Grandison v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in finding that Grandison failed to prove he suffered significant collateral consequences from his unconst…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-8374 Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless-error-analysis
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha…
18-8300 Paul Glen Everett v. Florida Florida 2019-03-06 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the…
18-8087 Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute the defendant for an allegation that the time limitations had expired
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 …
18-7913 Travis Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S. violated due process
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner Boyett was denied effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-7427 Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Whether the Court of Appeals' application of 'harmless error' analysis to an erroneous jury instruction violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right…
18-7430 Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility Whether the failure to include in jury instructions the required element of specific intent is subject to harmless error analysis where the element is…
18-7193 Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician What is the standard for assessing harmless error when a treating doctor has provided a form medical opinion statement that an applicant for social se…
18-7072 Kenneth Harper v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu…
18-6982 Jerry Walden v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing due to Guideline application error
18-6971 Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui…
18-6909 Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm…
18-6901 Enoch D. Hall v. Florida Florida 2018-12-03 Denied IFP advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation Whether the Hurst error is harmless given the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel, resulting in a Caldwell v. Mississippi e…
18-6882 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Hurst error is harmless in light of the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel under Caldwell v. Mississippi
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 …
18-6806 Eliana Sarmiento v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a defe…
18-6791 Benjamin Bland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses was violated
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…
18-6754 Domonic McCarns v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial Must…
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-6629 William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination …
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…
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-6307 Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record When unacceptable insufficient evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does 'harmless error'…
18-6216 Musonda Mulenga v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. …
18-6046 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment
18-343 Raiden J. Andrews v. United States Armed Forces 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments
18-6021 Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice Whether the state court's denial of petitioner's due process claim, wherein he alleged that the state's destruction of exculpatory evidence fatally pr…
18-298 Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Califor…
18-5793 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida Florida 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (4)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Florida's application of harmless error review to a unanimous jury recommendation of death violates the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial as…
18-5726 Ruben Cazares v. Texas Texas 2018-08-23 Denied IFP accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure Whether lower courts correctly evaluate the harmfulness of Bruton error without accounting for the devastating 'special prejudice' to the accused that…
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion?
18-5623 Garland E. Williams v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals appellate-rules circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process harmless-error motion-practice motion-rules notice notice-service panel-assignment standing Whether inadvertent failure Circuit Court Panel Assignment and failure notice service of all alleged court contending deficiencies notices conflict di…
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
18-5518 Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida Florida 2018-08-08 Denied Relisted (5)IFP advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana Whether a Hurst violation can be ruled harmless based solely on a pre-Hurst advisory jury's unanimous vote to recommend death, where the jurors heard …
18-146 Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response Waived ' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations…
18-138 Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio…
18-5373 Otis Sykes v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the defendant's substantial rights were affected by the district court's use of 'additional evidence' in imposing a guidelines sentence within…
18-5228 Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-13 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court violates precedents and the Eighth Amendment
18-5184 Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR IFP appeal criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-maintain-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial-strategy Whether the case of United States v. Anmad Hashimi should be remanded for review and decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in light of the U…
18-5160 Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh…
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis actual-innocence,coram-nobis,due-process,federal-criminal-procedure,harmless-error,statute-of-limitations
18-16 Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente…
18-5053 Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er…
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th…