indictment-sufficiency
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5847 | Charlie Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp… |
| 24-7103 | Ikeviaun Quamonn Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arraignment-rights criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime federal-assault indictment-sufficiency | Was Mr. Johnson entitled to vacatur of his conviction for assaulting federal officers where the essential element of the charge that he acted 'forcibl… |
| 24-6681 | Sharif El-Battouty v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability district-court-discretion evidentiary-rulings indictment-sufficiency special-interrogatories venue-determination | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not issuing a certificate of appealability by not reviewing the District Court's decisions regarding special int… |
| 24A569 | Jarrell Raeshon Bordeaux v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirators drug-conspiracy federal-criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency intent-to-distribute narcotics-charges | Whether the federal drug conspiracy statute requires an explicit allegation of agreement with specific co-conspirators or if the term 'conspiracy' inh… | |
| 24A122 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule | Whether the failure to allege conduct within a charging statute's scope constitutes a jurisdictional defect that renders a criminal indictment invalid | |
| 23-959 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-04 | GVR | Amici (4) | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation | Whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848 is invalid if it fails to set forth facts and circumstances that establish the elements … |
| 21-8226 | Eric C. Sutherland v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction | If an indictment omits an essential element and a prisoner files a §2255 after AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations has passed, in asserting his in… |
| 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… |
| 20-6175 | Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden | Georgia | 2020-10-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction | Can Petitioner be convicted of a crime where the Indictment fails to allege the essential elements of the crime charged? |
| 20-6109 | Rashawn D. Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states | Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated |
| 18-6253 | Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony | Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des… |