harmless-error-review

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach under the Armed Career Criminal Act using the latest or historical judicial interpretation of a s…
25-5179 Gerald Lynn Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act erlinger-error guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the unique ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger error structural, and what is the proper harmless-error review test for a guilty plea…
25A16 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-07 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial is violated when a sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act is determine…
24-6658 Donald Conelious Voltz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error-review judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-error structural-error Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the e…
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…
21-5813 Anthony Foster v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict?
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?
19-61 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…
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…