invited-error
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A750 | Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Application | brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 | Whether an appellate court may invoke the invited error doctrine to preclude substantive review of a trial court's application of a novel legal standa… | |
| 25-5899 | Michael Keith Marechale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver | Whether a defendant invariably waives appellate review by acquiescing to an incorrect jury instruction |
| 24-561 | RSBCO v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees fifth-circuit-review invited-error jury-instructions procedural-violation tax-dispute | Did the Fifth Circuit err in reversing a lower court ruling by interpreting undefined jury instructions and verdict forms in a tax dispute against the… |
| 23-1013 | Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the petitioners' drug distribution conviction despite the conflict with Ruan v. United States | |
| 22-6846 | Christopher L. Corn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 21-6491 | Lucas Montagne v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing | Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? |
| 20-7114 | Aesha Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement | Does the admission of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement implicating the defendant violate the Confrontation Clause? |
| 19-8902 | Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing | Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and… |
| 19-138 | First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson | Third Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver | Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review | |
| 18-7219 | Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search | Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness |