jury-conviction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5558 Vince Edward LaSane v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that the jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a min…
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict
21-6433 Jaimian Rashaad Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit-review jury-conviction sex-trafficking standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of the district court's denial of a judgment of acquittal and the jury's decision to convict ba…
21-6002 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr…
21-5192 Gilberto Antonio Guillen-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2021-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sexual-abuse sixth-amendment Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity, contained within the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, require a jury to be un…
20-7838 Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t…
20-7017 Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-02 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda…
20-6674 Tony Chevallier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of?
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's nonunanimous conviction?
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted of an offense for which he was not indicted, and has preserved the issues of constitutional error, what factors should a…