| 22-574 |
Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis |
1. Whether Federal District Court judges in conducting complex bench trials, by issuing ostensible "findings" which fail to specially and specifically… |
| 21-5530 |
Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
I. Sentencing Guideline §3C1.1 provides a 2-level enhancement for obstruction of justice and applies if a defendant testifies untruthfully about a mat… |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-5253 |
Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 19-8453 |
John Christopher Dobbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-6558 |
Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation |
1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision… |
| 19-5889 |
Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis |
Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 18-5837 |
David Lee Roberts v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme? |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia… |