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25-6135 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about…
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc…
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
23-7613 Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-06-03 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial Is an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's grant of a new trial reviewable?
23-5808 Rodney Jennings v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability doyle-rule doyle-v-ohio habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency strickland-test strickland-v-washington Did the court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claim under Jackson v. Virginia, Doyle v. Ohio, …
23-5654 Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence of a criminal conviction violates the Due Process Clause as interp…
23-5334 Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court of appeals reviewing a defendant's direct-appeal challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction must a…
23-5043 Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the jury?
22-7344 Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever…
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner fairly present federal nature of his claim on direct appeal
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error Question not identified
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a decision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
21-7687 Earl Jones v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove …
21-6720 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law When does AEDPA grant habeas petitioners complete relief or just review?
21-5837 Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th…
21-269 Anthony Carter v. Texas Texas 2021-08-24 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements Whether a reviewing court may uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by technical elements beyond the understanding of an ordinary factfinde…
20-7318 Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties whether-state-disproved-self-defense-beyond-reasonable-doubt
20-5070 Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia Virginia 2020-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence in criminal convictions violates the Due Process Clause as interpr…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the …
19-5802 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification whether-dna-testing-is-client-choice
19-5007 Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in…
18-8392 Obinna Obiora v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions with…
18-5604 Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas…
18-5161 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed…