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25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction
25-6609 Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the U.S. District Court erred in holding a Batson claim procedurally defaulted due to missing voir dire transcripts and denying a Certificate …
25-6486 Marvin Bowman v. City of Chicago Board of Education Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP appellate-review court-procedure harm-analysis judicial-error legal-standard summary-judgment Whether the lower courts erroneously applied the significant harm standard and improperly granted summary judgment to the Defendants
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's refusal to apply Kemp v. United States creates an irreconcilable Circuit Split regarding judicial error under Rule 60(b…
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure Did the Alaska Supreme Court misapply Heck v. Humphrey and violate the Bill of Attainder prohibition in a decision of national importance?
25-595 James William Hall v. Anthony Board, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure death-threats judicial-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Barberton Municipal Court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction and refusal to hold a hearing violated the petitioner's constitutional rig…
25-5824 Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental and material that the entire order must be…
25-5700 Patricia Ann Jackson v. John Xiao-Jian Qian, et al. California 2025-09-22 Denied IFP affidavit default-judgment judicial-error liberal-construction pro-se truth-in-commerce Is truth expressed in the form of an affidavit? Is an unrebutted Affidavit fact? Is truth sovereign in commerce? Are pro se filings to be liberally co…
25-5622 Tara Jean McManus v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal judicial-error justice-seeking legal-pursuit ninth-circuit procedural-review Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing case 25-409 related to a 24-year pursuit for justice
25-5507 Jamillah Cherry-Wiggins v. The Methodist Hospital, Inc. Indiana 2025-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure e-filing judicial-error legal-review precedent-conflict supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the court's decisions were erroneous due to conflicts with prior precedent and errors in the electronic filing system
24-7422 In Re Jerome Eric Bivens 2025-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure Does an illegally empaneled jury void a criminal conviction and/or mandate a new trial
24-7142 Saad Hanna v. Kimberly A. Nelson, M.D., et al. Colorado 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance judicial-error jury-instructions racial-threat Whether the trial court erroneously used prejudicial language suggesting defendant's guilt during jury instructions and whether defense counsel was in…
24-7138 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied IFP district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation
24-6995 Preston Alton Strong v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process external-evidence judicial-error jury-misconduct trial-procedure Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by shifting the burden of proof of harm to the defendant after a juror was exposed to inadmissible external evidence…
24-6864 Darren Latodd Houston v. Texas Texas 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-error jury-instructions Whether a state court's failure to properly instruct the jury on the elements of a criminal offense constitutes a violation of due process and fundame…
24-6725 Fernando Yates v. Spring Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights eeoc-brief judicial-error legal-ethics perjury Whether the Fifth Court of Appeals erred in ignoring relevant evidence and failing to properly consider the EEOC Amicus Brief, and whether the petitio…
24-927 Brian Burke v. Housing and Services, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-question judicial-error nys-labor-law remedy rico-claims standing Can Standing for a constitutional question (NYS Labor Law 190) be defeated by Judicial Error? Can RICO claims be defeated by Judicial Error, without a…
24-6462 Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation Whether a trial judge operating under an erroneous belief about the nature of a defendant's crime violates the defendant's federal due process rights
24-5998 Carlos Tonyo Cabrera v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process hearsay-evidence judicial-error prior-convictions procedural-due-process sentencing-scoresheet Whether a court violated a petitioner's due process rights by imposing life sentences based on an erroneous scoresheet using unsubstantiated prior con…
24-5927 William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Did the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals err in affirming Watson's conviction despite alleged jurisdictional defects, inadmissible evidence, and pros…
24-5877 Holston Banks, III v. John H. Spence Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court eighth-amendment judicial-error legal-framing pleading-rules Did the district court commit judicial error by dismissing a complaint based on legal framing when the factual allegations supported an Eighth Amendme…
24-5831 Colby Dranoel Leonard v. Keith Cooley, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure judicial-error legal-defect petition-review pro-se-litigation Whether the Federal Court erred in ordering demonstrative defects in a pro se litigant's petition alleging constitutional rights violations
24-5274 James Arthur Ross v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Oregon 2024-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amendment-of-complaint civil-procedure judicial-error oregon-revised-statutes statutory-interpretation trial-court-discretion Did the trial court err and/or abuse its discretion by not allowing petitioner to amend his complaint and by concluding that claims were barred under …
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
23-7492 Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states whether-the-fourth-circuit-appellate-court-commit-clear-or-plain-error
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under the…
23-7170 Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas Did the United States District Court magistrate err in denying the petitioners' 28 U.S.C. §2254 state habeas corpus petition without ruling on the mer…
23-7130 In Re William Graven 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel Can an Appeals Court Panel 'accidentally' miss/not rule on a second appealed/argued Order, and then just ignore that second argued Order, even when re…
23-6908 Shawn Christy v. United States Third Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion judicial-error pro-se right-to-counsel self-representation sentencing-review Did the district court error in not permitting Mr. Christy to represent himself?
23-810 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment
23-789 Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiff's Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally rende…
23-6058 Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate issue…
23-6020 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. District Attorney of Berks County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-mistake rule-60(b)(1) rule-60b statute-of-limitations successive-petition third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its application of Kemp v. United States
23-5931 Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it stated that Mr. Kissner did not show deliberate indifference to seriou…
23-5504 Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure Did the District Court commit error that substantively violated Lakes' right when it failed to include the disputes of the objection to the PSR which …
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly…
22-7842 Dashawn Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt Whether the last sentence of the Ninth Circuit's pattern jury instruction on reasonable doubt is an incorrect statement of the law and akin to a direc…
22-1176 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia
22-7116 In Re Ramone L. Wright 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-52 Whether a violation of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure constitutes a cognizable error as provided by Rule 52(b)
22-923 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-03-22 Denied civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an unclear Order with judicial errors that is confusing…
22-6980 In Re Michael Blodgett 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit committed more than seventeen structural errors over thirty years in three related …
22-6572 Christian Dior Womack v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing Does an appellate court's failure to recall its mandate to amend its opinion — that is predicated on the government's legal argument of inaccurate con…
22-6326 Mark A. White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court violated the substantive due process rights, protection and guarantees of the petitioner and American c…
22-6098 Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-11-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis Whether the lower courts erred in failing to rule on a constitutional claim that deprived the petitioner of due process
22-6103 Serdar Tatar v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b Whether the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s…
22-5852 Brent Evan Webster v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure claim-discharge discharge homestead-protection judicial-error priority-claims res-judicata trustee trustee-administration Did the Portland US Bankruptcy Court err in dismissing the adversary filings of Webster, failing to sustain his prior discharge after previously perfo…
22-5760 Philip Joseph Spear v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice Did the appellate court err by overlooking a 5th Amendment Constitutional wrong, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promise res…
22-5730 Quincy Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in sentencing the defendant
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
21-7729 William Gerard Wallace v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP civil-action civil-procedure criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-law judicial-error jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing trial-court Is the Florida State trial court at error when allowing the petitioner to plea out to a non-existing criminal charge that constitutes civil action?
21-7683 Nelson Conto v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's…
21-1351 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate review …
21-7353 Alejandro Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's fai…
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
21-7289 Katrina Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure fair-trial judicial-error motion-for-severance prejudice right-to-counsel severance standby-counsel whether-the-district-court-committed-error-by-ordering-the-defendant-to-go-forward-with-closing-argument-without-standby-counsel
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order
21-7125 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis Whether a lower court has a duty and obligation to correct a miscarriage of justice caused by fraud on the court, regardless of a harmless error of mi…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the lower courts erred in their analysis of the petitioner's ADA claim
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice's Appeal
21-1070 Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. Arizona 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing Whether the Arizona Appellate Court erred in its findings regarding material facts, procedural default, due diligence, and the possibility of a cure b…
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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?
21-6045 Melissa Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress
21-576 Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the defendant's convictions where the Circuit Court erred in admitting victim-witness hearsay…
21-5709 Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error in their holdings regarding the retroactivity and creation of a new cons…
21-5600 Linda Hardison v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication Can the district court and the appeals' court overlook a blatant error of law when the petitioner presented all documentary evidence and declarations …
21-5303 William Pruitt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-deadlock jury-instructions retrial trial-procedure Whether the appeals court erred in affirming the use of its pattern modified 'Allen' charge with a deadlocked jury
20-8226 In Re Francis Boyd 2021-06-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure Can a trial judge instruct a jury during a jury charge that they cannot find the petitioner guilty of a certain degree of murder after entertaining a …
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a request for COA on an important question of federal law regarding the trial judge's incorrect explanation of th…
20-7625 James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-error prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation property-exemption standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Did the District Court error by ignoring Oregon's Wildcard Exemption Rule
20-7586 Phillip Blough v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure Does the right to a trial by jury include the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions?
20-7540 Anthony V. Caiby v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-court-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-error jurisdiction opinions pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing Was the Circuit Court in err when it dismissed this case without Mr. Caiby ever having an opponent?
20-7509 Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court?
20-7169 Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for silently acquiescing to the structural error, allowing undue emphasis to be placed on the critical testimony, and gu…
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
20-6719 Lucille Jackson v. John E. Williams, Jr. Illinois 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure claim court-procedure estate estate-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-claim motion probate probate-law Whether the court erred in denying Lucille Jackson Williams claim against the estate
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-6617 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-law-application judicial-error justice-standard legal-interpretation standing state-court state-court-review Can a State Court applied clearly established Federal Law erroneously or incorrectly as to cause harm to a Petitioner?
20-6288 Allen Snyder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation victim-identification Whether the lower courts erred in denying Snyder's application for post-conviction relief based on an apparent confusion about the identity of the vic…
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Granted Relisted (2)IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding no basis for interlocutory appeal and refusing to allow the petitioner to show district court prejudice
20-229 Michael Woolen v. California California 2020-08-26 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner, 1 of 60 million Americans with mental illness, was deprived of Bill of Rights protections of Amendment 1, V, VI-IX and XIV
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court
20-5287 In Re Eddie Allen Jackson 2020-08-06 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-modification judicial-error Whether the district court constructively amended the indictment in petitioner's case and if so does it rise to a Fifth Amendment violation?
19-8887 Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s…
19-8836 Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure Was Petitioner Denied a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's Trial a Result of Structural Errors of Due Process
19-8546 Annamalai Annamalai and Parvathi Sivanadiyan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction judicial-error new-trial procedural-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct issues-being-raised
19-8408 Stanley West McPherson v. Tompkins Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error motion-to-dismiss pretrial-procedures procedural-rules scheduling-conference standing summary-judgment Whether the United States Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles erred and violated in failure and refuse to give petitioner a scheduled conference
19-8243 Jonathan Melvin LeDeux v. Jeannette Louise Anthony, as an Individual and in her Official Capacity as Trustee of The Emmett and Aralee Charlton Trust, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-vitiation judicial-error noerr-pennington-doctrine probate probate-clause separation-of-powers Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating th…
19-7971 William L. Lewis v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Did the trial court and appellate court err in entering a finding of guilt on a single count robbery when the government did not prove petitioner's gu…
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari Whether District Judge May erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint as frivolous
19-7888 Josephine Banks v. Waffle House, Inc. Georgia 2020-03-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure denial-of-appeal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-error legal-document notice-of-appeal procedural-justice record standing When a lower court overlooks a required legal document that is in the record, fails to correct their error and proceeds to deny a litigant the right t…
19-1050 Kyle Brooks v. Colorado Colorado 2020-02-24 Denied Response Waived allocution criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining voluntary-plea Was the plea valid?
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7587 Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered
19-7294 Mohammed Kwaning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Government officials conduct violated Petitioner's constitutional rights?
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion Whether the Mobile County Circuit Court abused its discretion in granting an eviction order while the petitioner was in bankruptcy
19-6171 Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-10-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the state appellate court and the Louisiana Supreme Court err in denying petitioner's appeal because the evidence presented at trial was insuffici…
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a…
19-5639 Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court Whether the trial court erred in charging my client with crimes not assessed by the grand jury prior to the trial
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
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…
18-9740 Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-21 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of first-degree murder and also to support the sentence of life imprisonment, and did the resentenc…
18-9701 Antoine Gause v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a miscarriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence an…
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 …
18-9143 Justin D. Fuller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-discrepancies burden-of-production criminal-procedure-franks-hearing,evidence,thresho defendant-rights due-process evidentiary-threshold franks-hearing government-evidence judicial-error pre-franks-procedure threshold-determination When does a court err in a 'Pre-Franks' procedure by considering government evidence to determine a defendant's entitlement to a Franks hearing?
18-1370 Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci…
18-9010 Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its ini…
18-8868 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clerical-error commitment court-filing criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-36 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-correction judicial-error procedural-rule record Is it error for the district court to file an order granting a petition to correct a clerical error in the judgment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 36, but fai…
18-8756 Jonathan S. Williams v. Dr. Kurk, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process federal-procedure judicial-error prima-facie-case res-judicata standing Did the U.S.D.C. commit legal error by granting defendant's motion to dismiss under res judicata without allowing the appellant an opportunity to cont…
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ. of Habeas corpus moot?
18-1212 Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Supreme Court Judge of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response Waived campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-court divorce-court-seizure due-process federal-campaign-finance federal-election federal-election-law free-speech judicial-error prior-restraint standing writ-of-mandamus Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit reversible error when it denied a Writ of Mandamus sought by Petitioner as a candidate for Congress to …
18-7764 Marcellus French v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the…
18-7464 Carlton E. Gary v. Florida Florida 2019-01-16 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process
18-7178 David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark whether-the-court-erred-in-its-previous-construction-of-the-statute
18-7119 Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
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…
18-6975 Roy Arlen Van Nortrick v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process duress duress-inducements-promises involuntary-statements judicial-error jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Van Nortrick is guilty
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…
18-6516 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon Oregon 2018-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation Was the trial court's judgment unconstitutionally cruel and unusual?
18-6473 Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-399 John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether the court of appeals abdicated its responsibility to conduct a plenary review and thereby improperly denied the petitioner of his constitution…
18-5994 Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Is an error of a lower State Court in exceeding the maximum sentence legally allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?
18-5810 Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing Violation of all constitutional rights, illegal sentence and detention
18-5681 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a jury verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio…
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no…
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…
18-5204 Jose Luis Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens